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THE GLORY OF CHICAGO -HER MANUFACTORIES. ' 




THE 



Industrial IiTERESTs 



OF (3H1CAGO, 



CoMPKisiKG A Classified List, with Locations and Bkiek 

]>ESCKiPTiON, Capital Invested, Number of 

Men Employed, and Amount of 

Annual Production. 



OF THE PKINCTPAL 



MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS 




IN THE CITY. 


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BY S. S. SCIIOFF. 


CHICAGO: 
KNIGHT & LKONART). BO(JK AND JOB PRINTERS. 

1878. 



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WALWORTH. BROOKS & GO'S IRON PIPE AND MACHINE WORKS, CHICAGO. 

Office and Salesrooms, 243 & 245 Lake, between Franklin and Market Sts. 

Works also at Cambridgeport (near Bostoni, Mass. 

Established, Boston j842; Chicago 185;-!. 

WALWORTH, BROOKS ^ CO. 

243 '& 245 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO, 

MANUFACTURERS. AND DEALERS IN 

Lap-Welded Wrought Iron Pipe 

Tested to 500 pounds pressure. 
Fittingrs, Val^^es, etc., foi* Steam, Oas ov Water. 

For Feeding Boilers, Protection from Fire, and all other uses. 

Sole Agents for OTIS BROS. & CO'S, New York, STEAM SAFETY ELEVATORS. 

ALSO CONTRACTOR8 POR STEAM HEATING AND VENTILATING. 

Wrought Iron Pipe, by the Car Load or in Large Lots, at Bottom Pricen. 



M'e would call the attention of Buyers, Builders, Architects, etc., to our facilities for producing goods at the lowest 
posiilile coHt, and our abilit.v to sell them at corrcJfpondingly low prices. We offer the oomblncd an'^ extensire assort- 
ment of two Manufactories, one in Boston and ouc in Chicago, having, perhaps, the largest produdon of goods in this 
line of any in the country. 

ATTENTION IS DIRECTED TO THE FOLLOWING SPECIALTIES : 

WROUGHT IRON PIPE. — Our Pipe is of superior excellence, the larger sizes Lap-Welded and tested to 600 

jiounds pressure. 
VALVES AND FITTINGS. — The old firm of WALWORTH & NASON being the first inventors, and they and 

their nucoessors having been constantly since large manufacturers of these goods, have kept in advance of com- 

peling manufacturers, who have attempted to copy their patterns. 
^AS AND STEAM FITTERS' TOOLS, ETC.— Of these we can offer the largest variety In the country, and 

the stamp on tools of " WAHVOUTll" is a guarantee of superior quality. 
'.^TEAM PUMPS.— The simplicity of the Valve Gear, and positiveness of action of our Steam Pumps, made under 

the Patents of (ieo. F. Blake (widely and farorably known as the " Blake Pump"), render them the most deslr- 

nMi- of any in the market. 

SKNl) FOR CIRCULAR AHD PRICK LIST OK QUE GOODS. 



THE GLORY OF CHICAGO -HER MANUFACTORIES. 



T?IE 




DUSTRiAL Interests 



OF CHICAGO, 



Comprising a Classified List, avith Locations and Brief 

Description, Capital Invested, Number of 

Men Employed, and Amount of 

Annual Production, 



OF THE PRINCIPAL 



MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS 



IN THP: city. 



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BY S: S. sen OFF. 



CHICAGO: 

KNIGHT & LEONARD, BOOK AND JOE PPJNTKHS. 

1873. 



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Manufactures ij5" Irois" 11-45 

Rolling mills and furnaces — Foundries, machine shops and boiler 
works — Car-wheel works — Stove works — Bolt and screw works — 
^ile works — Mill machinery — Safe manufactories — Cutlery manu- 
"Dolitr ^^^^^^ — Galvanized iron works — Steam fitting works — Steam heat- 
ing apparatus works — Machinery and tin- ware manufactories — Mis- 
cellaneous iron works — Iron bedstead, range and furnace works — 
Steam engine and printing press works — Saw, wire and scale works — 
Chain, horse-nail and thimble skein works. 

Manufactures in Wood ------ 46-80 

Planing mills — Sash, door and blind manufactories — Furniture and 
picture frame etc. manufactories — Refrigerator and packing-box manu- 
factories — Cofiiu, hoop-pole and ladder manufactories — Shingle, ci«s- 
tern, chair and stair manufactories — Piano and organ manufactories — 
Pump manufactories. 

Manufactures in Iron and Wood - - - . 81-98 

Wagon and carriage manufactories — Agricultural implement manu- 
factories — Car, bridge, and fire apparatus works — Hoisting appa- 
ratus and spring bed works. 

Manufactures in Metals other tha-n Iron - - 99-108 

Brass foundries — Silver smelting works — Type and electrotype foun- 
dries — Vault light manufactories — Telegraph instrument manufac- 
tories — Gas fixtures — Baggage check manufactories — Lead works — 
Jewelry and watch case manufactories — Silver plating — Sewing ma- 
chine attachment works — Locksmiths — Goldbeaters' works — Metal 
sign manufactories. 



CONTENTS. 

Manufactures in Leather - . _ _ _ 109-I:i0 

Boot and shoe manufactories — Harness and saddle manufactories — 
Trunk, blank book and whip manufactories. 

Breweries, Distilleries, etc. 1:^1-12; 

Breweries — Distilleries — Malt-houses. 

Brick and Stone Manufactures ... - 128-143 

Brick yards — Stone cutters — Art'ificial stone works — Terra-cotta and 
plaster works — Marble works. 

Chemical Works, etc. ..-._. 144-155 

Flavoring extracts, perfumery and baking powder manufactories — 
Chemical works — Soda water, ginger ale and pop manufactories. 

Miscellaneous Manufactures . . . . 156-20*^ 

Clothing, hat, cap and fur, and neck wear manufactories — Cotton bdi 
ting mills — bakeries — Flour and feed and spice mills — Macaroni and 
match manufactories — Tobacco and cigar manufactories — Sail lofts 

— Paper and glue manufactories — Show case, billiard table and coop- 
erage manufactories — Lime works — Ornamental glass works — Wil- 
low ware, paper box and ink manufactories — Brush, cork and um- 
brella manufactories — Hay press works — Carpet weaving manu- 
factories — Mop head and handle, and paper balloon manufactories 

— Waste-cleaning works — Wringing machine manufactories — Button, 
oil cup, and open banner sign manufactories — Jewelry case, orches- 
trion and ivory turning works. 



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NTRODUCTIOK 



When a new book is thrust upon the public, it is ordinarily 
to be expected that the author or publisher will inform his 
readers of the occasion, necessity, or relevancy of such publica- 
tion. The City of Chicago has already assumed the character 
of a metropolis. It is no longer the mere business center of 
a locality, or the commercial metropolis of a State. Its metro- 
politanism is national. Its growth and progress are of national 
interest. Its glory is national, and already the American in any 
part of the world takes additional pride and assumes additional 
importance from the fact that Chicago is in his country. 

In this view of the case, not only is every citizen of Chi- 
cago interested in her growing industrial interests, but the 
people of the country at large are interested in knowing how 
far those interests have progressed, in what branches they prin- 
cipally consist, and generally, their extent and value. A full 
and comprehensive account of the industrial interests of Chicago 
has never been published. We have had annual accounts of 
our immense traffic in grain, of the wonderful amount of the 
transactions of our wholesale houses, and of the facts connected 
with our commercial interests, and it is little wonder that we 
have gloried in their record ; but we hardly appreciate ourselves, 
because we have no means, except in a sort of general way, of 
knowing the extent of our industrial interests. And yet these, 
without reflecting upon or detracting from the importance of 
any others, are the glory of Chicago. They are the real pro- 
ducers of value — of wealth. While our trade and commerce are 
valuable in making exchanges, and assessing toll, as it were, 
upon the immense volume of products of every description 
passing through our borders, they do not, of themselves, pro- 
duce wealth. Manufacturers, like agriculturists, are producers. 



4 INTRODUCTION. 

They add to the actual wealth of the country, instead of merely 
exacting toll from the products of others that pass through 
their hands. Instead of passing wealth from one pocket to 
another without increasing it, our industrial interests are actu- 
ally increasing the volume of the wealth of the city, the coun- 
try, and of the world. 

In this, every reader will see and acknowledge the truth of 
our motto — The Glory of Chicago — Her Manufactories! 
The manufacturing interests of the city are, therefore, the most 
important to its continued growth in wealth and population. 

Again, the present autumn is to form a new era in the his- 
tory of the city. The second anniversary of the great fire will 
witness a rebuilt city, and the inauguration of the grand Inter- 
State Exposition, which is an acknowledgment of the now para- 
mount importance of its industrial interests, and that hereafter 
they are to have, as they deserve, the first place in the consi- 
deration of her people. What more fitting occasion, then, could 
be found for the publication of a full and comprehensive account 
of our manufactures, showing their kind, number and value^ 
the amount of capital invested in them, the number of men 
they employ, and the value of products annually turned out? 
Hundreds of thousands of strangers will be in our city, and 
they will all become more or less interested in the considera- 
tion of manufactures and industrial interests generally. Our 
Inter-State Exposition is, essentially, an Industrial Exposition. 
It has been inaugurated for the purpose of exhibiting the pro- 
ducts of our manufactures throughout the Northwest. Hence 
every visitor to the Exposition will want to see this record of 
Chicago's manufacturing industries. This will show not only 
what Chicago is doing at the present time, but her immense 
capabilities for the future : — that she is to be, not only the great 
central commercial metropolis, but, as well, the great nucleus 
of the manufacturing interests of the whole country, from which 
radiate the light of intelligence and the influences of wealth 
and refinement, to the extremest limits of the land. 

These are sufficient reasons for the preparation and publi- 
cation, at the present time, of this little work. The collection 
of the information here condensed and arranged, was a work of 
no small magnitude ; but with the writer, who, as a life-long 



introductions'. 5 

friend and advocate of home manufactures, has labored for the 
best interests of workingmen, it has been a labor of love. If 
the reader is as much gratified in the perusal of the evidences 
here condensed, of the greatness of Chicago, as one of the prin- 
cipal industrial centers of the country, as he has been in their 
collection and arrangement, one object of this publication will 
have been accomplished. 



SPECIAL ATTEJs'TIOK GIVERS' TO THE EXECUTION OP 

ENQEAVINGS OF MAGHINERY OF ALL KINDS IN A SUPERIOR STYLE. 

ALSO, ALL OTHEB 

COMMERCIAL AND ARTISTIC 

CAREFULLY EXECUTED. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 

B ^ li E I^ «fc CO., 

Cor. Clark and Monroe Streets, Chicago. 

A. L. HALE. D. T. HALK 

A. L HALE & BEO, 

FURNITURE, 

lO, IS, ±^ cfe 16 

CANAL STREET, 

CHICAGO. 



Manutactuhes of Chicago. 



The collection and compilation of the following statistics has 
been no small task, but the result is gratifying, showing, as it 
does, that the growth and prosperity of Chicago has a real founda- 
tion in the industry of her people; and that,Avhile by her commerce 
she collects from the production of others, she is herself a great 
})roducer of wealth. Industries that give steady and profitable 
direct employment to fifty thousand persons, and produce annu- 
ally over one hundred millions of dollars, are certainly worthy of 
all the consideration they receive. 

While it cannot be claimed that the statistics here given are 
correct in all cases, they come very near to a fair exhibit of the 
value and extent of the manufacturing industries of the city. 
While a few people have been met who, for various reasons, or 
for a want of a true comprehension of the scope and object of the 
work, declined to give the information desired, the great majority 
of manufacturers have taken pains to furnish the facts, by going 
directly to their books for their figures. No labor or pains have 
been spared by the author to make the work complete and 
reliable. 

The facts and statistics here collected are suggestive in an 
eminent degree. They show that the manufacturing industries 
of the city have grown in number and importance until they are 
entitled to that prominence and recognition that is accorded to 
other great interests. They suggest that it is time for the organi- 
zation of a "Manufacturers' Board of Trade," in which the 
manufacturers may consult and counsel together for the common 
interests of all. They represent in Chicago, not only many 
millions of capital invested, but at least two hundred thousand 
souls, nearly half the population of the city, who are directly 
dependent upon them for the labor that supports them and 



8 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

furnishes them with whatever of the comforts and the luxuries 
they enjoy. We suggest this idea of a ^^ Manufacturers' Board of 
Trade/' in all earnestness, believing that the interests of the 
producing classes of the city might be furthered in many respects. 
There are questions that affect all manufacturers alike, and while 
each particular branch has its peculiar interests, the most vital 
and important are common to all. 

By reference to the dates at which the various manufactures 
were established, it will be noticed that the great majority of them 
have been established since 1860. The decade from 1860 to 1870 
shows a wonderful increase in the number and importance of 
manufacturing industries, as well as a wonderful growth in those 
that were in existence at its commencement. There is little 
doubt but that the growth of the city, since the first of those 
dates, has been largely attributable to the multiplication and 
growth of the manufacturing industries. There is still less doubt 
that our future growth in population and wealth will depend still 
more upon the growth of manufactures in our midst. 

There is another consideration in connection with this matter. 
It has been demonstrated that Chicago presents unusual facilities 
for manufacturing industries. Among our manufacturers are 
many who have been established in other cities, and removed 
their works here on account of the greater facilities offered for 
procuring the raw material, and for distributing their manufac- 
tured wares to consumers. We find manufacturers here from 
Boston, Philadelphia, Toledo, and other cities, while every day 
witnesses the removal hither of large manufacturing establish- 
ments from surrounding towns and cities in our own State. The 
testimony of all is to the effect that, all things considered, they 
find here greater facilities for the growth and expansion of their 
business than elsewhere. 

A number of large manufacturing establishments, of various 
kinds, are now preparing to commence business in Chicago, some 
just organized, and others that have been for some time in active 
operation at other points. 

Another point that will be observed is the way different lines 
of manufacture seek some particular location, as a sort of focus, 
around which cluster many others of the same kind. The city 
may be divided into four or five great manufacturing districts. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 9 

On the North Side, east of La Salle street and south of Chicago 
avenue, is a great cluster of iron works. Michigan street, from 
La Salle to the river, is almost wholly given up to foundries, 
machine shops and boiler works. There are a few planing mills 
and sash and door factories, but manufactures in iron rule the 
locality. Another manufacturing district, in which iron, copper 
and agricultural implement works predominate, is found on the 
West Side, from Madison street north to Kinzie, and from Canal 
west to Union. Still further to the northwest seems to be the 
lieadquarters of the furniture manufacture. From the corner of 
North Green street and Chicago avenue, south and west, may be 
counted no less than fifteen large factories devoted to the manu- 
facture of various lines of furniture. The tanneries are nearly all 
congregated along the North Branch, north of Chicago avenue. 
Canal, Clinton and Jefferson, south from Madison, are largely 
devoted to manufactures in iron and wood. The stone cutters 
are nearly all congregated along the South Branch, from Van 
Buren south to Twelfth street and between Clark street and the 
river. The planing mills and sash, door and blind manufactures 
predominate south of Twelfth to Twenty-second, on both sides 
of the South Branch and along the West Branch. Still further to 
the southwest is another large manufacturing district, which is 
filling up with extensive factories in iron, and wood and iron. 
The brickmakers are nearly all congregated between Twenty- 
second street and the river, south. These are the general features. 
There are, of course, exceptions. The North Chicago Rolling 
Mills and Bessemer Steel Works, on the North Branch, are sur- 
rounded by tanneries and distilleries. The breweries at present 
seem to have no general focus. Along the lake shore, south of 
Twenty-second street, are several extensive breweries and one 
distillery; and along the lake shore, between Oak street and 
North avenue, on the North Side, the brewers still hold posses- 
sion ; while still further north and west, near Clark street and 
Webster avenue, are two of the leading breweries of the city. In 
time, this concentration of Avorks of a similar character will, 
without doubt, be more marked than at present. 



Manufactures in Iron. 



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1/ FURNACES, ROLLING MILLS AND BESSEMER STEEL WORKS. 



/ IS^ORTH CHICAGO ROLLING MILL COMPANY: 0. 

W. Potter, President and Manager; E. B. Ward, Treasurer; R. 
C. Hannah, Secretary. The works are located on the north 
branch of the Chieago river, near North avenue. The business 
is the manufacture of pig metal, iron and steel rails. The 
works were established in 1857; incorporated in 1869. The capi- 
tal invested, $3,000,000 ; number of employes, 1,500. The gross 
annual product is 30,000 iron and 20,000 steel rails, and 35,000 
tons pig metal, valued at $5,000,000. 

The ore used is from the Lake Superior iron mines, and from 
mines at Iron Ridge, Wisconsin. The ore is delivered at Esca- 
naba and at Milwaukee at $7.50 to $10 per ton, according to 
quality. 

The Bessemer Steel Works were completed in 1871 at a cost 
of $500,000. In the production of Bessemer Steel, Lake Supe- 
rior charcoal iron, anthracite iron from Iron Mountain, Missouri, 
and Speigel from Germany are used. Pig iron is sold at St. Louis 
and at other points. 

^ UNION ROLLING MILL COMPANY: A. B. Stone, 
President; Wm. Chisholm, Vice-President and Manager; Ira 
Stubbs, Secretary; James Whyte, Superintendent. The works 
are located on the south branch of Chicago river, at the corner 
of Ashland avenue and Thirty-first street. The workf. were 
established in 1863 ; incorporated in 1864. The capital inv(\ fed, 
$800,000 ; number of employes, 600 ; monthly pay-roll, $35,000 ; 
annual production, 18,000 tons steel rails and 12,000 tons of iron 
rails, valued at $3,000,000. Tlie manufacture of railroad iron is 



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12 MA>fUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

the specialty of this establishment. The Bessemer Steel Works 
of this Company were completed in June, 1870, they being the 
first Company to produce Bessemer steel west of Cleveland. 

JOLIET IRON AND STEEL COMPANY, of Joliet and 
Chicago : A. B. Meeker, President. These immense works were 
established in 1871. The capital invested is $3,000,000; the 
number of employes, 1,500 ; the monthly pay-roll amounts to 
$100,000 ; the annual production is 72,000 tons of iron and steel 
rails, valued at $6,000,000, and 40,000 tons pig iron valued at 
$1,500,000 to $2,000,000. Manufacture pig iron and iron and 
steel rails. 

Blast furnaces for reducing the ores to pig iron are located on 
the south branch of Chicago river, at Bridgeport, which are large 
and conveniently arranged for the receipt of material, by water 
and rail, and the shipment of their product. 

The works at Joliet comprise iron and steel rail mills, con- 
verting mills, blast furnaces, machine shops, foundry, pattern 
shops, gas works, water works, coke ovens, fire-brick works, etc. 
etc., and are complete in every appointment; located just north 
of the eity of Joliet, covering about one hundred acres of land, 
with necessary wings, etc., to different buildings ; and houses for 
employes, of which the Company have erected about forty. These 
works are so intimately connected with Chicago, Chicago interests 
and Chicago men, that a description of Chicago industrial inter- 
ests would not be complete without this item. 



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IROiN FOUNDRIES. 

CRANE BROS. MANUFACTURING COMPANY: R. T. 

Crake, President ; S. W. Adams, Secretary. Established in 1855 ; 
incorporated, 1865 ; capital stock, $1,000,000. Over 700 men are 
now on the pay-roll, which calls for about $50,000 per month. 

The works of the Company are located on North Jefferson, 
North Desplaines and Fulton streets. The business is the manu- 
facture of wrought-iron pipe, steam and gas fittings ; brass goods, 
steam warming and ventilating apparatus; Crane's steam ele- 
vators. Crane's hoisting engines for blast furnaces, coal, iron, and 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 13 

other mines; stationary steam fire engines, steam pumps, etc. 
Value of annual product, about $2,000,000. This Company also 
stands at the head of the business of furnishing steam heating 
cind ventilating apparatus in this country. 

The Crane Bros. Manufacturing Company is peculiarly one of 
Chicago's representative institutions. Starting in a small way, 
with little besides energy, indomitable enterprise, honesty and 
a thorough acquaintance with every detail of the business, it 
has grown with Chicago's growth and strengthened with her 
strength, until now, like the ©ity it honors and adorns, and so 
well represents, it is a model of its kind, vast, perfect and com- 
plete in itself, with foundations laid broad and deep for still 
greater growth and prosperity. 

The Crane Bros, continued to prosper and their business to 
increase for the first decade, when, in 1865, to provide for still 
further expansion, the " Northwestern Manufacturing Company " 
was organized and incorporated. Under this designation the 
establishment became well known throughout the Northwest. 

In 1872, the business having so expanded and grown as to 
demand another increase in the capital stock of the Company, 
measures were taken to that end, and the stock increased to one 
million dollars. The stockholders thought it would be a good 
opportunity to change the name of the Company, and, in honor 
of its founders, it was changed to its present designation, " The 
Crane Bros. Manufacturing Company," which has already made 
its distinctive mark upon the business public of the city and the 
Northwest generally, to such good effect that the old name, 
" Northwestern Manufacturing Company," has been almost for- 
gotten in the general rush of events. 

The buildings of the " Crane Bros. Manufacturing Company " 
are very extensive and complete, having a frontage on Jefferson, 
Desplaines, Fulton and Wayman streets, most of them four 
stories and basement in height. The wor.ks are divided into 
distinct departments, each occupying its appropriate place in the 
buildings. The buildings on the corner of Desplaines and Ful- 
ton streets are devoted to the manufacture of wrought iron pipe 
for gas, water and steam, which is a leading article of their manu- 
facture. Another special line is that of malleable and cast iron 
fittings for water, steam and gas pipes, which occupies a portion 



14 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

of the building on Desplaines street. The manufacture of these 
articles is a very important portion of the business of the estab- 
lishment. The Jefferson street buildings are devoted to the 
manufacture of freight and passenger elevators ; also the new 
hoisting elevator for blast furnaces, coal, iron and other mines, 
which has been designed and perfected for this special purpose 
by the Company. This is the most perfect and complete hoisting 
engine now in use, and is being extensively introduced through- 
out the country. 

WASHINGTON FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP: 

Holmes, Pyott & Co., Proprietors. Established in 1855 ; have 
now a capital of 1200,000; have 200 employes, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $2,500; annual production, $350,000. Castings for 
architectural works a specialty. Furnished the iron for Peter 
Page buildings, Wabash avenue, corner of Washington street, and 
in " Booksellers' Row '' on State ; Williams & Ferry's building, 
" Booksellers' Row," McCormick's Hall, corner Kinzie and North 
Clark ; the Tremont House, and several other fine buildings in 
the burnt district. They also furnished the castings for the 
" Wasatch Hotel," Salt Lake City. Located at 19 and 21 North 
Jefferson street. 

CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL IRON WORKS: Gen. 
^ JoHiT McArthur, Proprietor; David M. Ford, Manager. 
Established in 1872; capital $100,000, with an average of 100 
hands; monthly pay-roll, $6,000; annual production, 200,000. 
Castings, architectural iron works, a specialty; also castings 
for gas and water works, bridges, etc. The following buildings 
have been furnished with iron works by this establishment: On 
Madison street, Keith Bros. ; Scoville & Allen's ; " Browns " (res- 
taurant) ; Geo. W. Homan's — On Randolph, Hamlin & Freer's; 
J. H. Kedzie's ; M. C. Stearns' — On State street, H. & A. Keep's & 
Pease, and A. P. Wilder's ; and many others that might be men- 
tioned. Have on view at Exposition Close's Patent Park and 
Lawn Settees. This foundry has been built since the fire, and 
occupies premises Nos. 70 to 80 Erie street, and 57 to 67 Ontario. 

JETNA IRON WORKS: Clark & Rapfeei^, Proprietors. 
]/ Corner Ohio and Kingsbury streets ; established in 1867; capital, 



MAis'UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 15 

$75,000; 130 employes; weekly puy-roll, $1,200: annual pro- 
duction $260,000. The establishment was destroyed in the great 
fire, and was rebuilt and running again by the 9th of December 
following. Architectural castings a specialty. Furnished the 
ironwork for the Gardner House, Arcade building, Mattesou 
House, Rosenfield & Rosenberg's building, etc. 

J. K. LIVESAY'S FOUNDRY, 34 West Quincy street, was 
established in 1871, with a capital of $2,000 ; employs 25 hands, 
with a weekly pay-roll of $250 ; turns out $30,000 worth annu- 
ally. Castings of every description, light and heavy, and the 
manufacture of jackscrews is the principal business. 

WILLIAM INNESS' FOUNDRY, of which P. McCuke is 
Superintendent, was established in 1871 ; capital, $25,000 ; em- 
ploys 40 hands ; weeekly pay-roll, $2,000, and turns out $100,000 
worth a year. Light and heavy castings of every description 
form the specialty ; also castings for fencing and crestings. 

COLUMBIAN IRON WORKS : Elmes, Furber & Co., 
Proprietors. This is a foundry and machine shop; the former, 
located on Paulina near 22d street, is under the charge of A. 
PuGH ; the latter, at 65 and 67 South Clinton, is under the super- 
intendency of Charles F. Elmes. This is one of the old 
foundries, having been established in 1858. The present capital 
is $100,000, and 75 hands are employed, with a pay-roll of $5,000 
per month. Value of annual production, $125,000. Castings, 
steam-engines, shafting, hangers, pulleys, rolling-mill and rail- 
way machinery are the principal products. 

GLOBE FOUNDRY: R. M. Eddy, Proprietor; Albert 
M. Eddy, Superintendent. Located at 76, 78 and 80 Illinois 
street. Established in 1865 ; capital, $25,000 ; annual production, 
about $100,000 ; number of employes, 25 ; weekly pay-roll, $350. 
Like all the other manufactories of the North Side, this was de- 
stroyed in the great conflagration. With an enterprise worthy 
of all admiration, Mr. Eddy went at once to work, and in eight 
weeks was in running order again. Manufactures castings ex- 
clusively. Furnished the ironwork for the Newburv block oa 



16 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

Kinzie, corner of Wells street, and Magee block, corner Randolph 
and LaSalle streets, also for the Lincoln Park Hall, corner North 
Clark street and Webster avenue. 

ITNION FOUNDRY WORKS: N. S. Bouton, President; 
E. F. HuRLBUET, Vice-President and General Superintendent; 
V. B. BouTON, Secretary and Treasurer. Was established in 1852, 
and is one of the oldest works in the city ; was incorporated in 
1872, with a capital stock of $500,000 ; employs 400, with ar 
monthly pay-roll of 125,000; annual production, $1,000,000. 
Located corner of Fifteenth and Dearborn streets, where the 
works cover some five acres of ground. Specialty, cast and 
wrought iron building material and fire-proof buildings. Among 
the buildings which have received their ironworks from the 
Union Foundry Works are Potter Palmer's Grand Hotel, the 
Sherman House, the Grand Pacific, the Tremont House, First 
National Bank building. Tribune building, Journal building, the 
Singer building, and many other palatial buildings that grace 
rebuilt Chicago. 

COLUMBIAN IRON FOUNDRY; JoH^sr Featherstoi^e, 

Proprietor. Established in 1872; capital, $20,000; employs 70 
hands, and turns out an annual value of $200,000 ; monthly 
pay-roll, $4,000. Railroad castings are made a specialty, though 
castings of all kinds are made, and a general jobbing business is 
done. The works are located at 36 Front street, near N. W. R. R. 
track. 

CHICAGO IRON WORKS : Letz & Co., Proprietors. Des- 
plaines, from Way man to Carroll streets. Established in 1843 ; 
capital invested, $75,000; number of employes, 190; weekly pay- 
roll, $2,400 ; value of annual production, $300,000. Manufacture 
specially building work of all descriptions, railings, vaults, cast- 
ings, bridge works. One of the oldest and most popular estab- 
lishments in the city. Burned out in the great fire of October 
9th, 1871, with a total loss of everything. 

CHICAGO NOVELTY FOUNDRY : Kurtz Bros. & Buh- 
rer. Proprietors. Located at 828, 830 and 832 Hubbard street, 
corner of Diller. Established in 18G9 ; destroyed by fire Aug. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. IV 

10th, 1873, and has been rebuilt of brick in a more substantial 
manner and on a larger scale, the present building being 54x120 
feet in size. Capital, 15,000 ; number of employes, 30, with an 
annual production of $50,000 ; monthly pay, $1,500 ; specialty, 
light castings of every description ; also manufacture shelf-hard- 
ware, hangers, rails, bed-hooks, etc. 



4:^HE FOUNDEY OF MASON & DAVIS, 347 and 349 
Illinois street, was established in 1872, with a capital of about 
$5,000. They employ 15 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $225. 
Value of annual production about $40,000. The specialty of 
these works is light and fancy castings, of which they produce a 
great variety, among which may be mentioned the patent Mop- 
head. 



FOUNDRIES AND MACHINE SHOPS. 

CLINTON IRON WORKS. A. PLAMOXDOjq;.^Joundry and 
machine shop is among the oldest establishments of the kind in 
the city, having been established in 1859. Capital invested, 
$100,000 ; average number of employes, 100, with a weekly pay- 
roll of $1,500. Annual production about $250,000 in value. 
Specialty, the manufacture of mill machinery and mill furnish- 
ings generally ; also manufacture mill-stones, and the machinery 
for Vale's Patent Rotary Ovens. Location, 57 to 63 South Clin- 
ton street. 

ILLINOIS IRON WORKS, Andrew Bolter, Proprietor, 
corner Fifth avenue and Van Buren streets. Manufacture iron 
safes, bank vaults, iron doors, shutters, sash and gratings, orna- 
mental railings, and do a general business in light and orna- 
mental castings. The works were established in 1856. Capital 

; employes, 12 men, with a weekly pay-roll of about $175. 

Annual production, . 



ALLING & ELLIOTT'S FOUNDRY AND MACHINE 
SHOP, at 86 and 88 Wayman street, was established in 1872. 
Capital, $15,000 ; employes, 20 ; weekly pay-roll, $350. Annual 
production, about $100,000. Do a general millwright business ; 

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18 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

manufacture brick machines, and also furnish wrought and cast 
iron building materials. 

WM. HAYTHORN & CO.'S STEAM-FITTING AND 
^ ENGINE WORKS, 25 and 27 Michigan street. Established in 
1871, with a capital of $15,000 ; employ 25 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $650. Value of annual production, about $65,000. 
Manufacture steam engines, pumps, and all kinds of steam appa- 
ratus ; also do a general steam-fitting business. 

RICHARDS' IRON WORKS, J. C. Richards, Superin- 
^' tendent, 47 and 49 South Jefferson street. Established in 1860 ; 

capital, 1120,000 ; employs 100 hands, with a monthly pay-roll 
of $8,000, and produces annually $250,000 value. The specialty 
of the works is the manufacture of stationary and portable steam 
engines, fire engines, corn shellers and grain elevators ; also do a 
general foundry business. These works are represented in the 
grand Industrial Exposition by three steam engines — two sta- 
tionary and one portable — two steam pumps, a steam fire engine, 
corn sheller and elevator. 

FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP: A. V. Pitts & Co., 
Proprietors; S. C. Higby, Superintendent; 11 and 13 South Jef- 
ferson street. Established under the present management in 
March, 1873. They have about $10,000 invested, and employ 
10 hands at a weekly pay-roll of $150. It is the intention of 
the proprietors to add largely to the capacities of the works, and 
to increase the number of employes. Manufacture, as a specialty, 
Harris' Rotary Engines and Boilers, portable engines for agricul- 
^ tural purposes, printing presses, etc. The works are represented 

in the great Exposition by a full line of agricultural implements, 
a threshing machine, portable engine and boiler of the Harris 
rotary model. 

VARIETY FOUNDRY, E. B. Gardner, Proprietor, 24 and 
^ and 26 North Jeff'erson street. Established in 1872, on a capital 
of $1,000 ; employs nine hands, with a pay-roll of about $125 per 
week. Makes a specialty of light and ornamental castings of all 
kinds ; also manufactures Lobbell's Diamond Hay Fork. Annual 
production, $7,500. 



MAIfUFACTUKES OF CHICAGO. 19 

SAVAGE BROTHERS' FOUNDRY, 42 and 44 Michigan 
street, is one of the pioneer establishments of the North Side, 
having been estabhshed in 1854. They have invested a capital 
of $14,000, and employ 25 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $325. 
The Yalue of their annual production is about $50,000. 



BOILER AND ENGINE WORKS. 

1/ MARINE ENGINE WORKS, Robert Tarrant, Proprie- 

tor, 55, 57 and 59 Michigan street. Established in 1857 ; capital 
invested, $55,000 ; and with 40 hands they turn out an annual 
value of $120,000. The weekly pay-roll is about $650. Mr. Tar- 
rant makes marine engines and propeller wheels a specialty, and 
in those lines is not surpassed by any other establishment. A 
majority of the tug- boat engines on the Chicago river were manu- 
factured at this establishment. The works have occupied the 
same site from the first. They were destroyed by the great fire, 
of course, but, neither dismayed nor disheartened, Mr. Tarrant 
at once commenced to rebuild, and in about one month was run- 
ning again in full force. 

/ EXCELSIOR BOILER WORKS : C. Mason & Co., Pro- 

prietors. One of the pioneer works of the kind in the city, 
having been established in 1850. The present capital invested is 
$150,000 ; number of emjDloyes, 260, and the annual production 
about $600,000. The weekly pay-roll is $3,000. Marine and sta- 
tionary engines and boilers are the specialty of manufacture; also 
turn out gas works, and heavy work of all kinds. The Excelsior 
Iron Works are represented at the Inter-State Exposition. The 
Avorks occupy a half block each side of Clinton, between Carroll 
and Fulton streets. Extensive new brick buildings have lately 
been erected to accommodate the growing business. 

^. J. SCHNEIDER & CO.'S BOILER WORKS, 61 to 67 

Michigan street, were established in 1859. Capital invested, 
$50,000 ; number of employes, 55 ; weekly pay-roll, $1,100; value 
of annual production, about $250,000. Manufacture principally 
steam boilers, etc. 



20 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

1/ NOVELTY STEAM BOILER AVORKS, 114 North Jeffer- 

son street. Established in May, 1873, with a capital of S2,000 ; 
employes 11, with a weekly pay-roll of $250. Manufacture, spe- 
cially, steam boilers ; also tanks, heaters, coolers, and all kiiids of 
plate and sheet iron, generally. Already doing a good business. 

NATIONAL BOILER WORKS : Joseph Bell, Superin- 
tendent. Located at 56, 58 and 60 Fulton street; established in 
1867; capital 125,000; number of employes 30, with a monthly 
pay-roll of about $1,500 ; turn out annually about 1125,000 in 
value. They manufacture steam boilers, tanks and sheet-iron 
' Avork, and make a specialty of stand-pipes for water works. The 
boilers for the Grand Pacific Hotel were manufactured by this 
establishment. 

LIBERTY IRON WORKS, Eraser, Chalmers & Co., 
Proprietors, are the successors of the Eagle Works Manufactur- 
ing Company, established away back as far as 1843. They are 
located on Fulton street, from Nos. 137 to 145. Capital inv«sted, 
$80,000. They employ 125 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$1,500, and an annual production of $180,000. Manufacture 
steam engines and boilers, stamp mills, mining machinery, mill 
furnishings, sheet-iron work, and machinery generally. They 
have lately erected a new brick building 60x160 feet in size, and 
still occupy the old building, also of the same size, 60x160 feet. 
- The works are represented in the Inter-State Exposition by a 
horse-power rock drill and a Heald & Sisco Centrifugal Pump. 

^ AMERICAN STEAM BOILER WORKS: J.McFarlakd, 

J. Hamler, T. Tobin", and D. Maller, Proprietors. Located at 
895 South Halsted street. Established in 1871 ; capital invested, 
$6,000 ; number of employes, 27 ; monthly pay-roll, $1,800; value 
of annual production, $75,000. Manufacture steam boilers, lard 
tanks, coolers, and sheet-iron works of all kinds. 

CHICAGO STEAM BOILER WORKS : A. F. Buschick, 

Superintendent. Located at 66 to 72 Michigan street. Estab- 
lished in 1867 ; capital, $30,000 ; employes, 50 ; weekly pay-roll, 
$700 ; value of annual production, $175,000. Manufacture 
exclusively steam boilers. The immense boilers for the Water 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 21 

Works — both the old and new — were manufactured by this 
estabhshment. Destroyed by the great fire, and in t^iree days 
after they were again in operation under temporary cover. 

THE BOILER MANUFACTORY of Peter Devine, at 
63 Polk street, was established in 1855, and may therefore be 
called one of the pioneers. He has a capital invested of $50,000, 
and employs 75 hands, turning out $150,000 worth of steam 
boilers. The monthly pay-roll is about $3,000. Mr. Devine is 
one of the oldest manufacturers of boilers, and he has superior 
facilities for this business. Boilers from his works have invari- 
ably proved safe, durable and of superior quality generally. 

THE ENGINE WORKS of E. & J. Good & Co. were 
established in 18G3, at 17 to 23 Michigan street, with an invest- 
ment of about $30,000, and employ 40 hands, on a weekly pay- 
roll of about $650 ; annual production, $90,000 worth of steam 
engines, Vandercar's Patent Dipper, etc. Boat repairing is made 
a branch of the business of the works. Destroyed in the great 
conflagration, and commenced again soon after in temporary 
quarters. 

SCOVILLE IRON WORKS: H. H. Scoville, Proprietor. 
Located at Nos. 173 to 179 South Clinton street. Established 
in 1859, with an investment of 20,000, and employ 20 hands, 
v/ith a weekly pay-roll of $400. Annual production is $75,000 in 
value. They manufacture steam engines, shafting, pulleys, pile 
driving engines, stamp mills, mining machinery, etc. 

/ CONAN & BRAUMCELLER'S IRON WORKS, 149 Van 

Buren street. Established in 1872 on a capital of $2,000 ; em- 
ploy 4 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $75. Turn out about 
$8,000 worth of iron railing, iron doors, sash and grating. 



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WROUGHT AND CAST IRON WORKS. 

GLOBE IRON WORKS : H. A. Streeter'& Co., Proprie- 
tors, 80 and 82 Illinois street. Established in 1867; capital 
invested, $20,000 ; doing a large business ; employ 25 men, with a 
weekly pay-roll of $400. The specialty of this establishment is 



22 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

jail and court house work. They have the contract for the iron- 
work of the Cook county jail and criminal court buildings, also 
for several police stations and engine houses; also did the iron- 
work of the city bridewell. They also furnish court house and 
jail work for many counties throughout the Northwest. They 
turn out about 600 tons of ironwork annually, worth $125,000. 

CHICAGO PLATE AND BAR MILL CO.: Johit M. 
Ayer, President ; A. M. TnoMPSOi^, Vice-President ; W. Har- 
ris, Superintendent. Established in 1867; capital, $84,000; 
number of employes, 100, with a monthly pay-roll of $6,000 ; 
the value of annual production, $300,000 to $400,000. The 
special manufacture of this Company is boiler, plate and sheet- 
iron. They have lately added to their establishment facilities 
for the manufacture of all kinds of galvanized iron. The mills 
are located at southeast corner of Ashland avenue and Thirty- 
first street. Office, 132 Dearborn street. 

U. S. BRICK MACHINE WORKS: F. C. Wells, Pro- 
prietor. 116 South Clinton street. Established in 1866 ; capital 
invested about $500,000 ; employ from 75 to 300 hands, with a 
monthly pay-roll of $4,000 to $18,000. The special manufacture 
of this establishment is the United States Brick Machine; also- 
do a general foundry and machine shop business. 



CAR AXLES, ETC. 

CHICAGO STEAM FORGE WORKS : Pynchox & Wil- 
LARD, Proprietors. Established 1863 ; capital invested, $125,000 ; 
number of employes, 50 ; value of annual production, $250,000 ; 
monthly pay-roll, $3,500. Manufacture especially car axles and 
hammered shafting, wrought iron forgings, connecting rods, 
cranks, crank-pins, piston-rods, etc. The works are situated on 
Archer avenue and Ogden Slip. Office, 200 LaSalle street. 

ILLINOIS STEAM FORGE WORKS: E. P. Woodruff, 
Secretary. North avenue and the Nortli Branch. Established 
in 1867 ; capital invested, $75,000 ; number of employes, 40 ; 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 23 

monthly pay-roll, $3,000 ; value of annual production, 1200,000. 
The manufacture of car axles a specialty; also produce all grades 
of heavy forging, cross ties and other heavy work. This estab- 
lishment has just removed to South Chicago, and will hereafter 
grace that manufacturing suburb. 



CAR-WHEEL WORKS. 

BARNUM & RICHARDSON MANUFACTURING Co.: 
W. H. Baei^um, President, of Salisbury, Conn. ; Albert Alling, 
General Manager and Treasurer ; R. H. Masok, Secretary. Estab- 
lished in 1862 ; capital stock, 1150,000 ; employ 100 to 150 hands, 
with a monthly pay-roll of 16,000 to $7,000. The annual produc- 
tion is about 19,000 car wheels and 1,100 tons of castings. The 
works are at present located on Madison and South Jefferson 
streets, though it is expected they will be eventually removed to 
a new location south of Twenty-secojid street, near Ashland 
avenue, where buildings are being erected. 

^ CHICAGO CAR- WHEEL Co.; N. S. Boutoit, President; 

JoHK J. Simmons, General Manager ; C. B. Bouton, Secretary 
and Treasurer. This Company was incorporated in January, 
1873, with a capital of $50,000; employ 40 men, with a monthly 
pay-roll of $2,000, and turn out $200,000 worth of car and 
engine wheels per annum. 



MISCELLANEOUS IRON WORKS. 

NORTHWESTERN HORSE-NAIL CO.: N. Corwith, 
President; A. W. Kingsland, Secretary; G. L. Smalley, Super- 
intendent. I^ocated corner of Van Buren and Clinton streets. 
It was established in 1862 on a small scale compared with the 
present proportions of the works; capital invested, $75,000; 
number of employes, 75 ; weekly pay-roll, $1,200 ; annual pro- 
duction 750 tons horse-nails; value, $300,000. The Company 
have just completed a two-story brick addition to their factory, 
40x150 and 72x36 feet in size, and are now putting in additional 
machines that will increase their capacity to 1,200 tons per 



24 MAN^UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

annum. They have also new and improved machinery for finish- 
ing their nails. These finished nails are the only hammered 
finished nail in the market. This is destined to become one of 
the greatest manufacturing establishments in the city, as there is 
practically no end to the demand for the nails, and the works are 
in the hands of enterprising men, who will not rest satisfied with 
anything short of finally meeting the demand, however large. 
Have samples of their production at the Exposition. 

WESTERN CHAIN WORKS : 0. H. Lai^e & Co., Proprie- 
tors — 54 and 56 North Franklin street — established in 1870; 
35 employes and a pay-roll of $3,000 per month; annual produc- 
tion, 1100,000 worth of chains. The specialty of these works is 
anchor, crane and dredge chains. These chains are well and 
favorably known throughout the country, and are considered the 
best in the market. The dredge chains, especially, manufactured 
by this firm, have a wide popularity on account of their excel- 
lence, and are sold in all portions of the country, as far south as 
New Orleans and as far west as San Francisco. The works were 
destroyed by the great fire, but were running in the same loca- 
tion in about two weeks. They run 20 fires at present, but will 
soon enlarge the works to 60 fires, trebling the present capaeity. 

CHICAGO CHAIN WORKS: S. O. Taylor, Proprietor; 
E. H. Wachs, Manager. These works are located at 98 and 100 
Indiana street. Established in June, 1873, with a capital of 
$20,000; number of employes, 20; weekly pay-roll about $400. 
They are turning out chains at the rate of about $50,000 per 
annum. Mr. Taylor has erected a comfortable brick building, 
40x100 in size, that has room for thirty fires, though they are not 
all run at present. Manufacture all kinds of chains — log, cable, 
dredge and crane chains. 

^ CHICAGO IRON BEDSTEAD MANUFACTURING CO.: 
R. Martin", Superintendent. Established in 1867; the Com- 
pany now has a capital of $20,000, and employs 20 hands, with 
a weekly pay-roll of $275, and turns out $25,000 worth of bed- 
steads annually. These are of all sizes and styles, plain and 
folding. It is the only manufactory of the kind in the country, 
and its bedsteads are fast coming into popular favor. The fac- 



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MANUFACTUKES OF CHICAGO. 35 

torv was burned out, at 251 and 253 East Kinzie street, in the 
great lire, but resumed business immediately at the corner of 
Desplaines and Van Buren streets, where an office and salesroom 
is still maintained, though the factory has been permanently 
located at 435 Sedgwick street. The various styles of bedsteads 

are on exhibition at the Exposition. 

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I,"' CHICAGO STOVE WOEKS: C. A. McLeod, President; 
C-Xi-BoAL, General Manager. The works were established in 
1871, near the corner of Blue Island avenue and Twenty-second 
street, with a capital of $200,000 ; number of employes, 80, with 
a weekly pay-roll of $1,600. About $200,000 worth of stoves 
are turned out annually. The principal building is of brick, 
150x42 feet, of four stories and basement, and cost $55,000. The 
works have a capacity of 50 to 60 stoves per day. Lake Superior 
iron is used exclusively on account of its superior quality. The 
works are represented in the Exposition by a full line of stoves. 

^ STOVE WORKS of Colliks & Buegie are located on the 

corner of Clinton and Congress streets ; is one of the best con- 
ducted and most flourishing establishments in the city. These 
works were established in 1858, and may well be called the 
pioneers of the stove manufacture in Chicago. The present 
capital is about $250,000 ; employing 150 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $1,800. They turn out 12,000 stoves and a large 
quantity" of other castings annually, aggregating a production 
of $200,000 in value. The buildings are all of brick, four stories 
high, with a front on Clinton street of 180 feet by 225 feet on 
Congress street and Jefferson place. 

i/^ CHICAGO VISE AND TOOL CO.: H. A. Wari^er, 
President ; Z. S. Mastik, Superintendent. Established in 1869 ; 
capital $50,000; monthly pay-roll, about $2,000; value of annual 
production, $100,000. Manufacture vises of every description, 
exclusively, which are furnished to the trade throughout the 
Northwest. Have samples at the Exposition. 



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IRON WORKS : Matthias Klein, Proprietor, 237 and 239 
Dearborn street. Established in 1857 ; employ 12 hands, with 
a pay-roll of $185 per week; capital invested, $5,000; value of 



26 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

annual production, $20,000. Do a general wrought-iron business, 
and manufacture specially " Wilson's Iron Chair." Was burned 
out on same place, and commenced work in temporary quarters 
two weeks after the fire. 

CONTINENTAL BOLT WORKS: Cregier, Clarke & 
Co., Proprietors, corner Market and Huron streets; were estab- 
lished in 1872, with a capital of $20,000 ; employ 25 hands ; pay- 
roll $250 per week, and turn out in yalue $80,000 a year. Manu- 
facture machine and skein bolts, lag screws, bridge and roof 
bolts, etc. These articles are all made by machinery that is 
tended mostly by boys. It is the only work of the kind in the 
city and is fast growing into importance. The works are repre- 
sented in the Inter-State Exposition by a ^ull line of their pro- 
duction. 

CHiCACO BOLT WORKS: Locke. & Co., Pwprietors, 29 
and 31 North Jefierson street; E. B. Locke, Superintendent. 
These works were established in 1869, with a capital of $2,000. 
They employ 9 workmen, with a weekly pay-roll of about $125. 
The value of their annual production is $12,000. They manu- 
facture as a specialty bolts of every description ; also machinery^ 
Locke's Patent Header, Nutter and Tapper. The works will be 
represented in the grand Exposition by Locke's Patent Bolt 
Headers, Cutters and Tappers. 

BOLT AND SCREW WORKS of- C. E. Roberts & Co., at 
7 and 9 South Jefierson street, were established in January last, 
and the works are fast growing in popularity. The capital in- 
vested is about $10,000, with 11 employes, which number will 
be increased considerably, soon. The weekly pay-roll is $143, and 
the production this first year will probably be between $25,000 
and 130,000. The specialty of the establishment is the manufac- 
ture of screws of every description, and for all possible purposes. 



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WOOD WORKING MACHmERY MANUFACTORIES. 

THE MANUFACTORY of Kirkwood & Dunklee, at 303 
l/T 305, 307 and 309 South Canal street, was established in 1856. 
They have a capital of $50,000 invested, and employ 50 hands, 
with a weekly pay-roll of 1750. The value of their annual pro- 
ductioil is $125,000. Messrs. Kirkwood & Dunklee are the sole 
manufacturers of the celebrated Grant Planer and Matcher, 
Walker's Patent Resawing and Siding Machine ; also manufacture 
surfacers, scroll saws, Smith's sash and door machinery, and iron 
machinery of all kinds. The establishment is represented in the 
Exposition by a full line of its manufactures. 

f^ GREENLEE BROS. & CO.'8-WaOD WORKING MA- 
- CHINERY MANUFACTORY, 229 and 231 W. Twelfth street, ) 
was established in 1866; capital invested, $35,000; number of 
employes, 25, with a weekly pay-roll of $450 ; value of annual 
production, $80,000 to $100,000. They manufacture wood work- 
ing machinery generally, such as planers and matchers, planers, 
upright shapers, buzz planers, saw tables; patent sash, door and 
blind clamps is made a specialty, they owning the patent for this 
country. These clamps are having a large sale, having been 
introduced into nearly all the states, Australia and South America. 

EXCELSIOR WORKS : Burkhart, Proprietor ; Oharles 
Gard, Superintendent; 372 South Canal street, was established 
in 1871 ; capital invested, $25,000 ; number of employes, 25, 
with a weekly pay roll of $500 ; value of annual production about 
$75,000. Manufacture all kinds of wood-working machinery. 

t^' I L. B. WALKER^^O^yj^WPAerOUY, at 67 and 69 South 

Canal street,jwas established in 1868; capital invested, about 
$25,000 ; number of employes, 20, with a weekly pay-roll of $400 ; 
value of annual production, $50,000. Manufacture all kinds oi 
wood-working machinery, among which are Walker's Improved 
Chain-feed Surfacer and Resawing Machine ; patent splint and 
barrel hoop machinery ; patent basket forms, etc. 



28 MANUFACTURES OF ClIiCAGO. 



HOISTING APPARATUS MANUFACTORIES. 

THE MAlSrrrACTORY of JAMES W. KEEDY, at 83, 85 

and 87 Illinois street, jwas established in 1868. He has at present 
$50,000 capital invested in this manufacture, and employs 70 
hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $1,000. The value of his annual 
production is $200,000. This business has grown to immense 
proportions, comparatively, through the energy and enterprise of 
Mr. Keedy, and he now has an establishment occupying two large 
frame buildings. He manufactures exclusively hoisting machines 
for hotels, warehouses, mines, etc., and his orders come from all 
parts of the country. Among the buildings he has supplied are 
Sibley & Endicott's, Fuller & Fuller's, and the Northwestern 
Horse-nail Company, of this city, the Merchants' Exchange, 
Detroit, and a host of others that might be mentioned. J. H. 
Jailing is the Superintendent of the Manufactory. 

/ JOHN KENNEDY, MANUFACTUEER of HOISTING 
APPARATUS, at 188 and 190 Illinois street^ established the 
business in 1855. He has about $10,000 invested in the manu- 
facture and employs 15 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $275 ; 
value of annual production, $20,000. Mr. Kennedy was the first 
to commence this manufacture in the city. He turns out all 
kinds of hoisting machines, but principally platform hand-hoist- 
ing machines. He did not escape the great calamity of October 
9, 1871, but he commenced work before the debris of his factory 
was cold, and actually shipped three machines the third day after 
the fire. 

There are a number of large establishments that make the 
manufacture of hoisting apparatus a part of their business, but 
the above two are the only factories devoted exclusively to that 
business. 



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THIMBLE SKEIN MANUFACTORY. . 



THE BROWN & VAN ARSDALE MANUFACTURING 
CO. : C.-B. Brown, President ; G. T. Van Arsdale, Vice-Presi- 
dent and Superintendent; T. F. Brown, Secretary. 'Z'i Kings- 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 29 

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bury street.' The works were established in 1869 and incorporated 
in 1872, with a capital of 180,000 ; they employ 150 hands, and 
their semi-monthly pay-roll amounts to ^2,500 ; they turn out 
450,000 sets of seamless (thimble) wagon skeins per annum, 
valued at $510,000. This Company are the largest manufacturers 
of "thimble skeins" in the world. The market for this vast 
production is found thrcSighout the country, wherever wagons 
are made, there being few iirst-class wagons manufactured at the 
present day without them. They also manufacture sad-irons 
which for beauty, perfection and high polish are unequaled. 



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SAFE MANUFACTORIES. 



S. H. HAERIS, Safe Manufacturer: E.-W. FOWLEU, Super- 
intendent — 23 and 25 Eandolph street ^ established in 1866, at 
60 and 62 South Canal street ; was the pioneer in the manufac- 
tu^*e of safes in the city ; capital at present, 150,000 ; employs 35 
hands, with a monthly pay-roll of $2,500 ; turns out annually 
400 safes and the ironwork for 600 burglar-proof vaults ; valued 
at $100,000. The Harris safes are very generally as well as favor- 
ably known throughout the Northwest. Many of the larger 
styles stood the test of the great fire. 

" ( THE HEREING SAFE CO.— established in 1866; have a 
capital of $75,000 ; employ about 75 hands, with a weekly pay- 
roll of $700, and turn out annually about $150,000 worth of 
safes. Some 40,000 of Herring's safes are now in use in this 
country, and their reputation is second to none in the market. 
The factory is at the corner of Fourteenth street and Indiana 
avenue. Salesroom, 46 State street. 

t^ M. YALE CADY & CO., Safe Manufacturers — 70 West 
Monroe street -^ established in 1872; capital invested, $30,000; 
number of employes, 25 ; weekly pay-roll, $400 ; value of annual 
production, $75,000. This firm manufactures fire and burglar- 
proof safes of the Terwilliger patent, vaults, doors, etc. Sales- 
room, 59 South Canal street. Messrs. Cady & Co. are represented 
at the Inter-State Exposition by safes of their manufacture. 



30 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

CHICAGO CUTLERY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 

D. SiMOij^", Superintendent. The works are located at 157 to 187 
Mather street^ and were established in 1865 ; incorporated, 1868 ; 
capital stock, 1100,000 ; number of employes, 125, with a monthly 
pay-roll of $5,000. Annual production amounts to 14,000 gross 
table cutlery and butcher-knives, valued at $175,000. These 
goods are sold exclusively to wholesale houses in Chicago, St. 
Louis, Cincinnati, Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and in all 
other principal cities south and west. They enjoy a high reputa- 
tion, and have a standing in the market equal to the best American 
brands. The officers and directors are A. J. Galloway, President ; 
J. A. Tyrrell, Vice-President; M. Rubel, Secretary; Henry Greene- 
baum, R. Rubel, D. Simon, Directors. 

GUS. KNECHT'S FINE CUTLERY MANUFACTORY, 

190 Madison street. Established in 1863 ; capital invested, about 
$3,000; only three hands employed, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$60 ; value of annual production, $5,000. Makes a specialty of 
the manufacture of table and pocket cutlery, carvers, butcher- 
knives, etc., grindmg, polishing, concaving razors, etc. Btirned 
out at 104 East Madison street, and was running again in two 
weeks on Canal street. 

THE METAL SIGN MANUFACTORY of J.. A. Welch, 

259 East Randolph street, was established in 1871 ; capital in- 
vested, $2,500 ; but two hands employed at present; weekly pay- 
roll, $50 ; value of annual production, $8,000. Manufactures 
large chipped and filed metal signs ; also numbers for windows 
and doors. 

JOHN C. HIGGINS, manufacturer and dresser of mill picks, 
165 West Kinzie street. Established in 1867, with a capital of 
$5,000 ; employs five hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $100 ; pro- 
duces annually about $5,000 iai value. 

VAUGHAN & BUSHNELL, manufacturers of slielf hard- 
ware, 11 South Halsted street. Established the business in 1869 ; 
capital invested, $35,000; number of employes, 10; weekly pay- 
roll, about $150. Make a specialty of the manufacture of the 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 31 

Vaiiglian Patent Post-hole Auger. Burned out at 238 East Ran- 
dolph street in the great fire ; re-established at their present loca- 
tion soon after. Sell only to the wholesale trade. 

THE TOOL MANUFACTORY of Vaughan & Bushnell, 
11 South Halsted street, was established in 1869, with a capital 
of $18,000 ; employ 12 hands, at a weekly pay-roll of $150; value 
of annual production, $30,000. Their manufactures comprise post- 
hole augers, telegraph augers, felloe-points, washers, cold-chisels, 
screw-bits, box and cotton hooks, etc. 

J. McWADE & SOX, manufacturers of parlor grates, etc., 
at 115 West Monroe street. Established in 1865 ; have '$5,000 
invested ; employ five hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $125 ; turn 
out an annual value of $10,000. 



SAAV WORKS. 
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' N. W. SPAULDIXG & BRO.'S SAW WORKS, 20 South 

Canal street. Established in 1863 ; 'capital invested, $50,000; 
number of employes, 10 ; weekly pay-roll, about $150 ; value of 
annual production, $75,000. Manufacture, as a specialty, Spaul- 
ding's Patent Inserted Saw Teeth ; also insert these teeth in saws 
of all descriptions. The Messrs. Spaulding have lately erected a 
fine brick building 25x100 feet, four stories and basement in height, 
for the accommodation of their rapidly increasing business. They 
were burned out in October, 1872, at 23 and 25 South Clinton 
street, after which they purchased the lot and erected the build- 
ing at present occupied. 

JAMES H. HARRIS' SAW MANUFACTORY was estab- 
lished in 1872 at 103 South Canal street; capital invested, $5,000; 
employs five hands ; monthly pay-roll, $150 ; turns out annually 
$15,000 in value. Manufactures saws ; also retooths, grinds and 
hammers all kinds of saws. 

SAW MANUFACTORY (branch house of Henry Diston & 
Sons), 261 East Randolph street. Established in 1872 ; capital, 
$50,000 ; number of employes, 12 ; weekly pay-roll, $195 ; annual 



32 MAN'UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

production, 170,000. Manufacture all kijids of saws — circular, 
upright, and every other description. 

JOSEPH BUTLER & CO.'S FOWLING-PIECE MANU- 
FACTORY, 179 East Madison street — established in 1856 — 
one of the pioneer gunmakers. Messrs. Butler & Co. have about 
$20,000 invested; employ eight hands, with a monthly pay-roll of 
$600, and the value of their annual production is about $30,000. 
The manufacture of breech-loading double-barreled shot-guns is 
a specialty. They were burned out in the great fire at 130 South 
Clark street, and started business again in a few days after that 
event at 76 West Madison street, where they remained until they 
took possession of their present spacious quarters. They have a 
full line of their shot-guns at the Exposition. 

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT MANUFACTORY: W. H. 

Bulloch, Proprietor, No. 1 South Clark street. Established in 
1866 ; capital invested, about $3,500 ; employs three hands, with 
a monthly pay-roll of $75 ; value of annual production, about 
110,000. Manufactures optical and mathematical instruments, 
telescopes and microscopes of great power; also models for ma- 
chinery, patents, etc. The only manufactory of the kind in the 
city. Mr. Bulloch was burned out in the great fire, and started 
business again a few days after at 245 West Madison street. 

JOHNSON & PRICE'S LIGHTNING-ROD MANUFAC- 
TORY, at 51 West Lake street, was established in 1865. They 
have a capital of $25,000 invested, and employ five hands, at a 
weekly pay-roll of $100. The value of their annual production 
is put down at $100,000. 

THE CHICAGO SCALE CO. : W. W. Nutting, Proprietor; 
was established in 1862, at 68 and 70 West Monroe street ; capi- 
tal invested $50,000 ; number of employes, 30 ; value of annual 
production, $150,000 ; monthly pay roll, $1,515. The Company 
manufacture counter, warehouse, stock and every variety of scales, 
which stand high in the market for accuracy, durability and ex- 
cellence generally. The works are represented at the great Expo- 
sition by a full line of their manufacture. 



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MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 33 



FILE MANUFACTORIES. 



CHICAGO FILE WOEKS: C. M. Smith, President; ^^: 
' IlELYiLEJu^^Supeiintendent ; established in 1866 ; capital, 1100,000 ; 
number of employes, 25, with a weekly pay-roll of 1275 ; value of 
annual production, 135,000. The manufacture of files is mostly 
done by hand, and by skilled workmen, but little advance having 
been made towards cheapening the cost by labor-saving machinery. 
This Company manufacture all kinds of files, a market for which 
is found principally in the city, though they fill orders from all 
parts of the Northwest. The works occupy Nos. 114 and IIG W. 
Van Buren street, 50 x 190 feet. 

MECHANICS' FILE MANUFACTURING CO. : located at 
32 West Quincy street ; established in 1870 ; capital invested, 
$5,000; number of employes, 15; weekly pay-roll. $200; value of 
annual production, about $20,000. The files manufactured by 
this Company are noted for their excellence throughout the 
country, being admitted to be unexcelled by any manufactured 
in the country. They are considered by some equal to the old 
English files. The works are represented in the Inter-State 
Exposition by a full line of their manufacture. 

NORTHWESTERN FILE WORKS: Chas. Fades, Proprie- 
tor, 55 N. Desplaines street ; the oldest file works in the city, hav- 
ing been established in 1857. The capital invested is but $G,000, 
and the number of employes, but 6, who turn out about $6,000 
worth of files per annum. The weekly pay-roll is about $150. 

CHICAGO GALVANIZING WORKS: Burton & Cook, 
Proprietors, corner W. Lake and Francisco streets ; were estab- 
lished in 1869, with a capital of $2,500. The number of employes 
is 7, with a weekly pay-roll of $100. The value of annual pro- 
duction is $20,000. The specialty of the establishment is the 
galvanizing of iron and sheet iron, and they do a general galvan- 
izing business. 



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34 MANUFACTUKES OF CHICAGO. 



STEAM HEAime, ETC. 

^ STEAM HEATING WORKS of A. L. Winne & Co., 57 and 
59 North Wells street;] established in 1864; capital invested, 
120,000 ; number of employes, 40, with a weekly pay-roll of $550 ; 
value of annual production, 1200,000. Manufacture steam heat- 
ing apparatus for heating public and private buildings. They 
make a specialt}^ of Winners Patent Cast Iron Sectional Boiler. 
This method of heating buildings by steam has attained a high 
degree of popularity, being universally conceded to be the best 
and most economical of any yet invented. A large number of 
public buildings and private residences in this city are heated by 
Messrs. A. L. Winne & Co.'s heating apparatus. The firm was 
burned out at 114 Dearborn street in the great fire. 

\^ JOHN DAVIS & CO., STEAM HEATINO AND HOIST- 
ING APPARATUS, corner Michigan and La Salle streets,; es- 
tablished in 1861 ; have $50,000 invested, and sonploy 175 persons, 
with a weekly pay-roll of 12,000; value of annual production, 
$350,000. Messrs. Davis & Co. make a specialty of putting up 
heating, ventilating and hoisting apparatus of every kind. They 
have done this for the Tremont, Matteson, Clifton, and Briggs 
Houses, Marine Hospital, etc., all of which attest the high esti- 
mation in which their work is held by the builders of some of the 
first structures in the city. 

S. I. POPE & CO., steam fitting worKS, 87 and 89 West Lake 
street, were established in 1872, with a capital of $13,000, and 
employ 25 hands ; weekly pay-roll, $300. Value of annual pro- 
duction, $150,000. Among the new buildings for which Messrs. 
Pope & Co. have furnished steam heatmg apparatus, are Culver, 
Page & Hoyne's, Pullman Palace Car building, Inter-Ocean 
building, Steele & Price's building, Chicago & Northwestern 
Railroad Office building, corner Kinzie and Market streets. 
They also have the contract for heating the new County Jail 
building. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 35 

VAULT LIGHT MANUFACTORIES. 

/^' FRENCH VAULT-LIGHT MANUFACTURING CO.: 
Ji(t€0»- G^-CuRTis, President; (R. Carter, Secretary and Treas-^ 
jjrer-;- J^-C. French, Vice President and Superintendent; 52 
and 54 South Clinton street. Established in 1872, with a capital 
of $100,000 ; number of employes, 40 ; weekly pay-roll, $550 ; 
value of annual production, $85,000. This Company manufac- 
tures specially the French Sidewalk, Roof and Vault Lights. 
Among the buildings supplied with these lights are several of 
Hon. J. Y. Scammon's; Hale & Ayer's new building; Hall, Kim- 
bark & Co.'s, and many others. 

BRO-WN BROTHERS' VAULT-LIGHT MANUFAC- 
TORY': EDWii^ Lee Broavn, I^prietor ; northwest corner of 
South Clinton and West Jackson streets. ' Established in 18G0 ; 
number of employes, 75 to 85 ; weekly pay-roll, $1,000 ; value 
of annual production, $250,000 to $300,000. These works are 
exclusively for the manufacture of Hyatt's Patent " Lead Band " 
and " Cement " Sidewalk Lights, Vault Lights, Floor Lights, 
Roof Lights, and Vessels' Deck Lights, and are the most exten- 
sive of the kind in the world. During the year 1872 this firm 
used in their manufacture 750 tons of iron, 100 tons of glass, 50 
tons of lead and 5 tons of sulphur. They paid out for pattern- 
making alone, during that year, $36,000, employing more than 
twice as many pattern-makers as any other manufactory of any 
kind in Chicago. Their daily cash expenses in 1872 were about 
$700. For eight months of that year they made and laid down 
in place in front of business buildings in Chicago a sidewalk- 
light platform equal to 40 feet long by 6 feet wide on an average 
every tvorhing day — equal to a frontage of nearly two miles in 
length. This manufactory is worthy of a visit. Mr. Brown is a 
member of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Commit- 
tee of the Inter-State Industrial Exposition. 



RANGE MANUFACTORIES. 

STEPHEN WILKS, Manufacturer of Hotel a-nd Car Ranges, 
Carving Tables, Steamers, Boilers and all kinds of Tin and Cop- 
per Ware. The works were established in 1858, at 143 State 



36 MAKUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

street ; the capital invested, including the building, is $40,000 ; 
and 15 hands are employed, with a monthly pay-roll of $1,000 ; 
value of annual production, $50,000. Mr. Wilks was burned out 
in the great fire on the same site. With the regular Chicago 
pluck, he commenced work the day after the fire in his barn, 
corner of Butterfield and Thirty-first streets ; and while the ruins 
were still smoking commenced clearing away the rubbish prepar- 
atory to rebuilding. His works are represented in the grand 
Exposition by samples of ranges, carving tables, steamers, etc. 



HOT-AIR FURNACE MANUFACTORIES. 

BOOMEE & JENKS, at 829 and 831 State street, near Six- 
teenth, manufacture Hot-Air Furnaces and do a general manu- 
facturing business in Tin, Sheet Iron, Tin Eoofing, etc. The 
works were established in 1860, with a capital of $10,000. They 
employ 16 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of about $250, and turn 
out products to the value of about $50,000 annually. Hot-Air 
Furnaces are the specialty of the manufacture. They are also 
dealers in stoves, ranges and household furnishing goods. 

W. K. MANNING, Hot-Air Furnace Manufacturer; G. C. 
Tatch, Foreman, 139 "West Lake street. The works were estab- 
lished in 1870, with a capital of $20,000 ; number of employes, 15, 
with a monthly pay-roll of about $1,300. They turn out 100 
furnaces a year, valued at $17,500. The manufacture is exclu- 
sively Manning's Hot-Air Furnaces. 



GALVANIZED SHEET IRON WORKS. 

The immense building operations of the past two years have 
given a wonderful impetus to the manufacture, in galvanized 
sheet iron, of cornices, door and window caps, etc. Hence we are 
not surprised at the number of establishments of this kind. 

(//^ BOOMER, JENKS & COOPER*S-^h^L-VANIZED SHEET- 

-ffiON WORKS, located at 771 South Clark street — A. W. 

Cooper. Superintendent — were established in 1873, with a 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 3T 

capital of $7,000. They employ 52 hands, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $643. The value of the annual production is about $70,000. 
The manufacture of this establishment is confined almost exclu- 
sively to galvamzed iron cornices. 

A. KNISELY & CO.^S-e^:^cf:¥^t^I^EJ> IRON WORKS 
are loca ted^JSTos. 72 and 74 West Monroe street, j These works 
were established in 1859, and at the present time have a capital 
of $20,000 invested in them, and employ 40 hands, and their 
weekly pay-roll amounts to $500. The value of their annual 
production is $80,000. They manufacture exclusively galvanized 
iron cornices, window caps, etc. 

U- DEWEY, JONES & CO., Galvanized Iron Cornice Manu^ 

^facturers, 140 North Desplaines street, established the business 
in 1865 ; capital invested, $20,000 ; number of employes, 40, with 
a weekly pay-roll of $700 ; value of annual production, $100,000. 
They manufacture specially galvanized sheet-iron cornices, win- 
dow and door caps, etc. This firm has furnished the roofing, 
cornices, and all galvanized iron work of tlie grand Exposition 
buildinsf. 



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ROBERT GRIFFITH'^^ GALVANIZED SHEET-IRON 
.WORKS W'er-^^stablished in 1868, at the corner of Nineteenth 
and Grove streets. He has a capital of $30,000 invested, and 
employs about 70 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $1,200 ; and 
places the value of his annual production at $125,000. He does 
a general manufacturing business in sheet iron, tin, and copper ; 
and also does a general business in metal and slate roofing. 

PHCENIX GALVANIZED IRON WORKS: McFarlaj^d 
& Price, proprietors ; established at 87 North LaSalle street in 
1872 ; have about $6,000 invested and employ 20 hands, with a 
weekly pay-roll of $350. The value of their annual production 
is $50,000. They manufacture exclusively galvanized iron cor- 
nices, door and window caps. 

FROMHOLD & PRESKE, galvanized iron cornice manu- 
facturers, at 164 North Clark, is 'one of the oldest firms in the 
business, having been established in 1856. They have a capital 



38 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

of $5,000 invested and employ 18 hands, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $200, turning out an annual value of 140,000. They manu- 
facture 2^1'incipally galvanized iron cornices, windows and door 
caps, and also do a general tin and slate roofing business. They 
were burned out on the same site, but went to work immediately 
after the fire in a temporary building. 

KALTENBACH & WAGNER, manufacturers of galvanized 
sheet-iron cornices, etc., 91 West Randolph street; were estab- 
lished in 1857; capital invested, about 13,000; number of em- 
ployes 6, with a pay-roll of about $100 per week ; probably turn 
out $10,000 worth a year. They do all kinds of galvanized iron 
works, and heavy sheet-iron work. 

A. FRIEDLY'S GALVANIZED IRON CORNICE WORKS, 

at 337 North Clark street, were established in 1872, with a cap- 
ital of $5,000. They employ 15 hands, to whom they disburse 
about $200 weekly. Value of annual production, $20,000. The 
manufacture of galvanized iron cornices is the specialty of the 
establishment. 

WARREN BROTH, manufacturer of ornamental metal 
works, ornamental center-pieces, etc., at 32 West Quincy street ; 
established in 1868 ; capital invested, $5,000; employs 5 hands; 
weekly pay-roll, $150 ; value of annual production, $5,000. Has 
samples of his production in the Industrial Exposition. 

JOHNSON, WOOD & JOHNSON, manufacturers of Tin and 
Sheet-iron Ware, 33 North State street ; established in 1873, with 
a capital of $2,000 ; employ 4 men, and turn out about $10,000 
in value per year. Weekly pay-roll, $100. 

ZINC ROOFING AND ORNAMENTING WORKS: John 
B. Gerard & A. Gateau, proprietors, 164 and 166 Chicago 
avenue; established in 1869. Investment at present, $50,000; 
number of employes, 50 ; monthly pay-roll, $4,000. Value of 
annual production, $75,000. The Zinc Roofing and Ornamenting 
Company commenced business at 118 South Franklin, where 
they lost everything in the great fire of October 9th, 1871. Mr. 
Gateau, the superintendent, however, associated himself almost 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 39 

immediately after with Mr. Joiin B. Gerard, and erected the 
building- now occupied, resuming active business in March, 1872, 
having restored all the patterns and dies of the old company. 
IVEanufacture all kinds of architectural ornaments in stamped or 
cast zinc, for interior and exterior ornamentation of buildings, 
gardens, cemeteries, etc. They also contract for zinc and tin 
roofing and all kinds of galvanized iron and zinc cornices. 



Tm AND JAPANNED WARE MANUFACTORIES. 

•--_;,?»© TI^^ AND JAPANNED WAKE MANUFACTORY 

«el^roRTON BR0S..iwW-€«tablislie4^inr' 18^^ ■ capital invested^^at 
present7'S15;000 ; number of employes, about 80, with a weekly 
pay-roll of about $650 ; value of annual production, $150,000. 
This firm do a large business in the manufacture of tin cans for 
the wholesale grocery, spice, and paint trade of the Northwest, 
and have attained a re]3utation second to none in the country for 
the quality of their work. They started in Toledo, but- came to 
Chicago on account of the greater facilities for manufacturing 
and distribution — shipping their goods to all parts of Illinois 
and Indiana ; to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, Milwau- 
kee, etc. Their large grocers' caddies are models of beauty and 
elegance, being ornamented with paintings and chromos equal in 
beauty of touch and coloring to the originals. These pictures 
are transferred by a process that retains all the beauty of coloring 
and shading, and the most delicate outlines of the artist. The 
establishment is represented in the grand Exposition by a full 
line of grocers' caddies, and cans for the spice and paint trade. 

DANE, WESTLAKE & COVERTS" LANTERN, PLAIN, 
STAMPED AND JAPANNED TIN WARE MANUFAC- 
TORY,-ai 288 Lake, and 16 and 18 Franklin streets, was' estab- 
lished in 1862; capital invested, $100,000 ; employs 120 hands, 
men and boys, with a Aveekly pay-roll of $1,300 ; value of annual 
production, $350,000. The business of this firm has grown to its 
present immense proportions from a small beginning but little 
over ten years ago. They manmfacture tin ware — plain, stamped 
and japanned — and make a specialty of Westlake's new Patent 
Loose Globe Car Lamps and Lanterns. The establishment was 



40 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

of course destroyed in the great fire, but the proprietors were 
among the first to commence rebuilding on Lake street, and their 
present fine and commodious store on the corner of Lake and 
FrankHn streets was the first building finished and occupied in 
that locality. 

SARGENT, GREENLEAF & BROOKS, manufacturers of 
the Sargent & Greenleaf Patent Adjustable Elbow, are located at 
25 Randolph street. The works were established in 1872, with a 
capital of $15,000. They employ 12 hands, and have a weekly 
pay-roll of about $150. The annual product is 18,200 dozen 
elbows, valued at $93,000. The extensive business of the firm is 
the manufacture of these elbows of tin, iron, or any other sheet 
metal, of any diameter, from one to ten inches, which are adjusta- 
ble to any angle or shape desired. 

TIN AND SHEET IRON WARE MANUFACTORY: 
Kelly & O'Brien, Proprietors. Established at the time of the- 
fire near corner of Madison and State streets. Started at the 
present place immediately after the fire, putting up the first shanty 
on La Salle street. Capital invested, about $5,000 ; employ eight 
hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $120 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, $15,000. Manufacture street lamps, and do a general busi- 
ness in tin and iron ware. They have the contract for the 
manufacture of all street lamps for the city. 

H. C. VAN SCHAACK, JR., 50 State street, manufacturer 
of tin ware and house-furnishing goods. Established the busi- 
ness in 1857 ; employs eight hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
1200 ; value of annual production, $10,000. Also deals in stoves 
and house-furnishing goods generally. Burned out at 82 State 
street, and started immediately at 991 Michigan avenue. 

[/^ THE SHIPPING CAN MANUFACTURING CO.— Wil- 
SON" & EvEKDEN", Proprietors — 46 and 48 West Lake street — was 
established in 1869 ; from 20 to 30 hands are employed, with a 
weekly pay-roll of about $300; the value of their annual pro- 
duction is from $75,000 to 100,000. Manufacture exclusively 
patent oil shipping tanks of various styles and sizes. These 
tanks are made of heavy galvanized iron with wooden bottoms. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 41 

and are the best of the kind in the market ; also manufacture 
Evenden's Patent Force Pump. They also manufacture kerosene 
cans (fillers), measures, funnels, bung spouts, marking-pots, gal- 
vanized iron scoops, tin sugar-scoops, liquor-thiefs, painters' 
strainers, buckets, pots, etc. The works are represented in the 
Inter-State Exposition by samples of oil tanks and shipping 
cans. 

THE TIN WARE MANUFACTORY of M. R. Tuttle & 
Co., 227 Northwestern avenue, was established in 1869, with a 
capital of about $8,000 ; number of employes, 15, with a weekly 
pay-roll of about $200; value of annual production, 115,000. 
Manufacture exclusively plain tin ware for the peddling trade in 
the country. A number of wagons are kept constantly out in 
the trade. 

R. CHESTER'S LANTERN AND TINWARE MANU- 
FACTORY — 4 West Lake street — was established in 1862; he 
has a capital invested of $10,000, and employs 8 hands, with a 
weekly pay-roll of 1120 ; the value of his annual production is 
$20,000. He manufactures all kinds of tin, copper and sheet-iron 
ware, but makes a special t>y of the well-known " Chester Railroad 
Lantern," and baan and saloon lamps. 

ROBERT AITCHISON & CO., Manufacturers of Perforated 
Sheet Metal — 13 to 27 North Jefferson street — established the 
business in 1868; capital invested, $20,000; employ about 
10 hands; weekly pay-roll, $150; value of annual production, 
$100,000. Manufacture perforated sheet metal of all descriptions 
— sheet-iron, copper, tin, zinc, galvanized iron, etc., for a variety 
of purposes. The work is done largely by machines that only 
require a boy to tend them. 

[^ CaRRUOATED IRON WORKS =- S. B. Mukson, Jr., & 

Co., Manufacturers of Corrugated Iron — 27 North Canal street—-) 
established the business in 1871 ; capital invested, $25,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 20 ; monthly pay-roll, $1,200 to $2,000 ; value 
of annual production, $125,000. Manufacture specially corru- 
gated iron shutters and doors, also corrugated iron roofing ; are 



42 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

represented in the Exposition by a full line of their manufacture 
in Department 0. 

THE SELLEW ELBOW CO. — S. B. Munsoi^, Jr., Super- 
intendent — 27 North Canal street — established in 1871 ; employ 
10 hands ; monthly pay-roll, $600 ; value of annual production, 
$90,000. Manufacture exclusively the Sellew Patent Elbow — 
which consists of one piece of iron — of corrugated metal. 



WIRE GOODS MANUFACTORIES. 

The manufacture of wire goods is quite an extensive interest 
in the city, but there are few extensive establishments devoted to 
the business. The factories are generally small, operated by a 
few hands and upon a correspondingly light investment of 
capital. 

l/^ THE NATIONAL WIRE CLOTH MILLS: Evahs & Co., 
Proprietors — offixiQ... and- -salesroom, 281 East Madison street — ■ 
(Factory, 42 to 46 Diller street) were established in 1866 ; capital 
invested, 140,000 ; number of employes, 25, with a weekly pay- 
roll of $300 ; value of annual production, 175,000. Manufacture 
principally steel wire cloth of all descriptions, spark arresters for 
locomotives, wire fencing, screens, etc. The machinery is driven 
by steam, and, we should judge, the business is destined to grow 
to still larger dimensions. 

JONES & BOOTH, at 41 LaSalle street, manufacture wire 
cloth and wire goods generally. They commenced the business 
in 1863, and are the pioneers in this branch of industry. They 
have about $10,000 capital invested, and employ 15 hands, with 
a weekly pay-roll of about $200, and the value of their annual 
production is about $25,000. 

i/^ J. R. PALMENBERG'S WIRE AVORKS — Chas. J. Jet- 

TER, Manager — 200 and 202 East Madison street. This is a 
branch of the large establishment of J. R. Palmenberg, of New 
York, which was established in 1850,' and has a capital invested 
of $50,000 ; employs 40 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $800, 
and turning out $30,000 worth of goods per annum. Mr. Jetter's 



MAN'UF^CTURES OF CHICAGO. 43 

establishment is the only one of the kind west of New York, and 
all articles manufactured are the invention of J. R. Palmenberg. 
Thev manufacture especially wire busts, figures, stands and racks 
for dry goods, millinery, hat, cloak and clothing stores. The 
business has grown from a small beginning to its present large 
proportions, when there is hardly a store in the entire country 
that does not use these goods, in which the public is constantly 
looking for something new and attractive. Mr. Jetter is repre- 
sented in the grand Exposition by a full line of goods in this 
line. 

ILLINOIS WIEE WORKS — Wm. Starke, Proprietor — 

206 West Randolph street — established in 1865 ; capital invested, 
$10,000 ; number of employes, 12, with a weekly pay-roll of 8400 ; 
value of annual production, 840,000. Manufacture all kinds of 
spiral springs for bed-bottoms ; also sole manufacture of Flinn's 
patent springs for beds, which are placed directly upon the bed- 
slats, and used without any frame or covering, making the cheapest 
spring bed-bottom in use. 

GREAT WESTERN WIRE WORKS — Theo. Spargen- 
BERG, Proprietor — 102 West Madison street — established in 
1872, with a capital of 82,000 ; number of employes, five ; weekly 
pay-roll, 8100 ; value of annual production, 86,000. Manufacture 
all kinds of crimped, twisted and wrought-iron guards ; also coal 
and sand screens, etc. 

"THE" WIRE WORKS of Geo. Mitchele, 39 South Canal 
street, were established in 18T2, on a capital of about 81,000, and 
employ three hands, with a monthly pay-roll of 8150 ; turns out 
annually about 83,000 worth of flower-stands, screens, trellises, 
etc. The works are represented at the Exposition. 

M. C. ISAACS & CO. — L. Marks, Superintendent — estab- 
lished the manufacture of steel wire brooms, brushes, etc., in 1869- 
Capital invested, 85,000 ; number of employes, 16 ; weekly pay- 
roll, 8250; value of annual production, 820,000. Located at 49 

Congress street. 

CHICAGO WIRE WORKS: H. McMaxus, Proprietor. 
Located at 78 State street; established in 1871 ; capital invested. 



44 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

r 

$1,000 ; but two employes ; weekly pay-roll, 150 ; value of annual 
production, $3,000. Manufacture plain and ornamental wire- 
works, wire window-guards, counter railings, wire shades, etc. 

THE ILLINOIS WIKE WORKS AND BIRD-CAGE 
MANUFACTORY — W. R. Boerj^er, Proprietor — 310 West 
Randolph street — established in 1863 ; capital invested, 15,000; 
number of employes, five ; monthly pay-roll, $325 ; value of 
annual production, $15,000. Manufactures wire window-screens, 
plain and figured ; every style and variety of bird cages, squirrel 
cages, mouse cages, etc. ; also all kinds of screens, riddles, sieves, 
flower-stands, etc. 

A. W. OBERMAN — 89 West Randolph street — manufac- 
turer of patent self-fasteni«ig bed springs, chair and upholsterers' 
springs, etc. ; established the business in 1867 ; has about $5,000 
invested; employs five hands, with a weekly pay-roll of about 
$100; value of annual production, $10,000. Has a full set of 
springs at the Exposition. 

P. GRAFF & CO. — 23 North Jefferson street — manufac- 
turers of steel wire brooms and brushes, and rattan brooms for 
street and stable use ; established the business in 1868, with a 
capital of $2,000 ; employ seven hands, with a weekly pay-roll ot 
$100 ; and turn out about $15,000 worth of goods a year. 

BLACKSMITH BELLOWS MANUFACTURING CO. 
OF CHICAGO — George M. Scott, Proprietor, Johnson street, 
between Canal and Clinton — established in 1869, with a capital 
of $20,000 ; employ 10 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $250 ; 
value of annual production, $40,000. Manufacture exclusively 
blacksmiths' bellows. 

\^\N COOK & CO. manufacture some kind of corn sheller, 
but prefers not to give any information. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



45 



MANUFACTURES IN IRON - SUMMARY. 



Manufactures in iron, of every kind 127 

Total capital invested. $13,545,300 

" number of employes 9,623 

" amount of wages paid weekly $48,463 

" amount paid monthly 408,525 

" aggregate wages paid per montli 607,890 

" wages paid per year 7,294,680 

" production for the year 32,103,000 

These comprise the following establishments : 



Rolling mills and furnaces .- 

Foundries 

Boiler works 

Car- wheel works 

Stove works 

Bolt and screw works 

File works 

Mill machinery 

Safe manufactories 

Cutlery manufactories 

Galvanized iron works 

Steam-fitting works 

Steam-heating ap'ratus works 

Machinery manufactories 

Tin ware manufactories 

Miscellaneous iron works 

Iron bedstead manufactories . 

Range and furnace works 

Iron works 

Steam engine works 

Printing press works 

Saw works 

Wire work manufactories 

Scale works 

Thimble skein manufactory. _ 

Chain manufactories 

Horse-nail manufactory 



3 

18 
7 
2 

2 
3 
3 
2 
3 
2 

18 
2 
2 
4 
5 

14 
1 
3 
8 
5 
1 
3 

11 
1 
1 
2 
1 



Cajntal. 


No.' 
Employes. 


$6,800,000 


3,600 


1,791,000 


1,786 


243,000 


378 


200,000 


165 


450,000 


230 


32,000 


45 


107,000 


46 


115,000 


120 


155,000 


135 


103,000 


128 


513,800 


658 


28,000 


50 


1,020,000 


700 


125,000 


120 


242,000 


73 


381,000 


246 


20,000 


20 


70,000 


46 


322,000 


373 


140,000 


122 


100,000 


100 


105,000 


27 


126,000 


130 


500,000 


30 


80,000 


• 150 


48,000 


55 


75,000 


75 



Monthly 
Wages. 



$235,000 
111,352 

26,390 
9,000 

14,750 
2,132 
1,891 
7,862 
7,075 
5,255 

40,662 
4,037 

56,685 
8,925 

12,193 

15,350 
1,172 
4,295 

20.648 
8,606 

22,125 
1,318 
9,510 
1,500 
5,000 
4,700 
5,100 



Annual 
Prodiiction. 



$16,000,000 

3,710,500 
995,000 
700,000 
400,000 
117,000 
54,000 
350,000 
325,000 
180,000 

1,653,000 
215,000 

2,200,000 
350,000 
640,000 
830,000 
25,000 
117,500 

1,043,000 
300,000 
155,000 
160,000 
226,000 
150,000 
500,000 
150,000 
300,000 



Of the whole number of manufactories in iron — 127 — twenty-six were 
established previous to 1860. 



Manufactures iisr Wood. 



PLANING MILLS-SASH, DOORS & BLIND MANUFACTORIES. 

h PALMER, FULLER & CO., Manufacturers of Sash, Doors 

and Blinds — corner of West Twenty-second and Union streets- 
established the business in 1850 ; they employ 400 hands, with 
a weekly pay-roll of 13,700 ; value of annual production, 1800,000. 
Manufacture sash, doors and blinds; also stairs, stair railing, 
newel posts, etc. This is another of the representative estab- 
lishments in its line. The firm of Palmer, Fuller & Co. — com- 
posed of A. R. Palmer, "Wm. A. Fuller and Geo. R. Marsh — are 
just the kind of men to build up an immense and flourishing 
establishment. Enterprising, energetic and strictly honorable in 
all their dealings, they command success. 

The new works of Palmer, Fuller & Co. were completed in 
April, 1871. Their buildings — Manufactory, Warehouse and 
Lumber Yard — occupy six acres of ground at the corner of West 
Twenty-second and Union streets, with railroad track connecting 
with all railroads in the city, and dockage on the river. Thus 
they are very eligibly located for maivufacturing, shipping and 
handling goods. During the present season they have added to 
their works extensive lumber dry kilns (of E. J. Sumner's patent), 
which enable them to have their entire stock of lumber thor- 
oughly seasoned before being manufactured. They have also 
added other facilities to their works, which make them the most 
perfect in all respects, in this line of manufacture, in the city. 
Building materials of every description, in wood, form their 
specialty. Sash, doors and blinds, stairs and stair railing, bal- 
usters and newel posts, mouldings, rope mouldings, brackets, 
scrolls, etc. They have lately issued a "New Stair Book," con- 
. taining cuts of many of the different styles of newel posts. 



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MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 47 

balusters, stair railing, etc., made by them. These are manufac- 
tured in both hard and soft wood. Such are the establishments 
that build up a great city, and add to its wealth, prosperity and 
population. 

THE GOSS & PHILLIPS MANUFACTURING CO.— W. 
B. Phillips, President; Arr-MoaDir, Vice President; Geo. E. 
tG«w?«oh^ -Secretary ;-Ch AS. L. Jejstks, Treasurer — loea)4e4aithe' 
corner of Clark and Twelfth streets ^established in 1848; capi- 
tal invested, $500,000; number of employes, 600, with a weekly 
pay-roll of 16,000 ; value of annual production, $1,250,000. Man- 
ufacture sash, doors and blinds ; and also make a specialty of stair 
building. This is one of the pioneer establishments of the city, 
having been established as early as 1848 — a quarter of a century 
ago. But notwithstanding its age, it shows all the energy and 
enterprise of its younger contemporaries, it being one of the largest 
as well as one of the oldest wood working establishments in the 
city. 

i^ THE GARDEN CITY MANUFACTURING AND SUP- 

PLY CO. — A. C. Hesing, President; FtGustorf, Secretary — 
corner of Twenty-second and Morgan streets \ established in 
1870; capital invested, $500,000; number of employes, 400, with 
a monthly pay-roll of $15,000 ; value of annual production, 
$1,200,000. This immense establishment occupies an entire 
block — manufactures sash, doors, blinds and mouldings, and 
has the largest planing-mill in the world, having the capacity 
of manufacturing 60,000,000 feet of lumber per year. It is one 
of the great manufacturing establishments which Chicago has 
good reason to take a pride in. 

THE PLANING MILL of David Goodwillie, 35 Ohio 
street, was established in 1856 ; has a present capital of $40,000, 
and employs 30 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of $700. The 
value of his annual production is $20,000. Does principally a 
planing and lumber-dressing business. 

l^ THE PLANING MILL AND SASH, DOOR AND BLIND 
MANUFACTORY of W. E. Frost & Co., 144 Sixteenth street, 
was established in 1861 ; capital invested, $50,000 ; number of 



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48 MAKLTACTL'KES OF CHICAGO. 

employes, 90, with a weekly pay-roll of $1,000 ; value of annual 
production, $500,000. Manufacture sash, doors, blinds, window 
frames, mouldings, etc., and do a general planing and lumber- 
dressing business. Hardwood doors a specialty. 

THE SASH, DOOR AND BLIND MANUFACTORY of 
Hall & Wijs-ch — Wm. Jejs^kikson, Superintendent — was 
established in 1857, and has a capital of $150,000 ; employs 140 
hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $3,000. Value of annual produc- 
tion, $150,000. Manufacture, sash, doors, blinds, window and 
door frames, mouldings, balusters, etc. Also, does a general plan- 
ing, scroll sawing, and turning business. The factory is located 
at 528 to 536 S. Cla-rk street, and is 140x260 feet in size 

THE PLANING MILL AND SASH, DOOR AND BLIND 
MANUFACTORY of McDougal & McKinlay — 42 and 44 
N. Sangamon street — was established in 1856; capital invested, 
$20,000 ; employ 100 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of $3,600 ; 
value of annual production, $300,000. Manufacture, sash, doors 
and blinds, mouldings, brackets, stair railing, window frames, 
etc., and also do a general planing and lumber-dressing business. 
Messrs. McDougal & McKinley are also extensive builders and 
contractors. 

THE NEW NORTH SIDE PLANING MILL CO.— Lewis 

O'Neill, Superintendent ; Johi^" O'Neill, Secretary ; S. E. corner 
Franklin and Ohio streets — was established May 15th, 1868; 
capital invested, $40,000 ; number of employes, 97, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $1,000 ; value of annual production, $175,000. Manu- 
facture sash, doors and blinds, and mouldings, and do a general 
planing business. This establishment was totally destroyed in 
the great conflagration on the northeast corner of same streets, 
and was so far built up in five days, on the present site, that 
steam was let on and the machinery started. 

THE SASH, DOOR AND BLIND MANUFACTORY of 
HoMAN, Brown & Co., 95 Ohio street, was established in 
1871, with a capital of $10,000. They employ 26 hands ; have a 
weekly pay-roll of $235. The value of their annual production 
is put down at $125,000. They manufacture sash, doors and 



MAN'UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 49 

felinds, and all kinds of trimmings for buildings. They are also 
l)uilders and contractors. 

THE PLANING MILL, AND SASH, DOOR AND BLIND 
FACTORY of W. V. Johkstok & Co. — 824, 826 and 828 State 
street — was established in 1866, and the}^ have a capital invested 
of $20,000. Tliey employ 100 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$1,500. The annual value of their production is $100,000. They 
manufacture sash, doors, blinds, balusters, newell posts and stair 
railing, mouldings and scroll sawing. They also do a general 
planing and lumber-dressing business. 

HEPP & SCHOENTHALER'S PLANING MILL — at 75 

to 87 West Chicago avenue — was established in 1869, on a capital 
of $75,000. They employ 135 hands, to whom they disburse 
semi-monthly, a pay-roll of $2,500. The value of their annual 
production is $150,000. They manufacture sash, doors and 
blinds, and do general planing and lumber-dressing business. 

THE SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTORY of Smith 
Bros. & Co. — was established at 130 and 132 Fufton street, in 
March, 1873; capital invested, $25,000; number of employes, 40; 
with a weekly pay-roll of $600. They expect to turn out $150,000 
worth of sash, doors, blinds and mouldings. They have a three 
story brick building, 50x80 feet in size. They will add another 
story soon, which will largely increase the capacity of their 
factory. 

THE SASH, DOOR AND BLIND MANUFACTORY of 
E. H. Hartwell, at 28 North Jefferson street, was estabhshed in 
1§69. Has a capital invested of $200,000, and employs 45 hands, 
with a weekly pay-roll of $800. He turns out annually $200,000 
worth of sash, doors and blinds. In addition to supplying a large 
city demand, he sells extensively to country dealers. 

(X THE NORRIS PLANING MILL AND LUMBER CO.— 

A. K. NoRRis, President, 165 West 22d street — was established 
in 1869; capital invested, $90,000 ; number of employes, 75 ; 
value of annual production, $175,000 ; monthly pay-roll, $2,500. 
The principal business of this establishment is planing and dress- 
ing lumber, preparing flooring, siding, etc., and manufacturing 
4 



50 MANUFACTUllES OF CHICAGO. 

packing boxes. Also do a general business of docking, assorting 
and piling lumber. 

y^ THE SINCLAIR & ATKINS CO. — G. SuMMERs/Presi- 
dent; E. E. Perley, Secretary — corner of May and Twenty- 
second streets — established in 1867; capital, $50,000; number 
of employes, 100, with a weekly pay-roll of 11,100 ; value of 
annual production, $500,000. Manufacture sash, doors and blinds, 
and do a general planing and lumber-dressing business. 

THE SASH, DOOE AND BLIND MANUFACTORY of 
AVm. Steyexs — Wm. Carlisle, Superintendent — was estab- 
lished in 1858 ; capital invested, 120,000 ; employs 60 hands, with 
a weekly pay-roll of over $700, and turns out $80,000 worth of 
frames, sash, doors and blinds annually; also manufactures all 
kinds of stair work, mouldings, scroll sawing, turning, etc. Fur- 
nished the sash, doors and frames for some of the finest build- 
ings in the city — among others the Grand Pacific Hotel, C. C. P. 
Holden's bu'ilding, etc. Located at the corner of West Twenty- 
second and Throop streets. 

, V THE E. MENDSEN CO. — H. Witbeck, President; E. K. 

Dej^^isox, Secretary and Treasurer — 256 "West Twenty-second 
street — was established in 1867; capital invested, $50,000; em- 
ploys 75 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $650 ; annual pro- 
duction, 15,000,000 feet of planed and dressed lumber ; valued 
at $300,000. Do a general planing and lumber-dressing business ; 
also docking lumber ; sort and ship to all parts of the country. 

THE PLANING MILL of Wilce, Stevei^s & Co.— 
northeast corner of Throop and Twenty-second streets — was 
established in 1873, with a capital of $30,000 , employs 30 hands, 
with a weekly pay-roll of $400, and turns out annually $100,000 
worth of planed and dressed lumber ; also dealers in lumber. 

THE PLANING MILL AND TURNING SHOP of E. 
KiRCHJSTER & Son, 415 North avenue, was established in 1852 — 
one of the pioneer establishments of the North Side ; has a capi- 
tal of $15,000 ; employs 15 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $130: 
value of annual production, $25,000. Manufactures mouldings^ 
and does a general planing, dressing, scroll-saAving and turning 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 51 

business. Burned out in the great fire; but not discouraged or 
disheartened, father and son went to work in earnest, and -in less 
than twenty days had new buildings erected and commenced run- 
ning again. 

i^ THE STAR PLANING 'iriLTirTrcrX^ Hank Lymak 
& Co., Proprietors -^ 72 to 80 Main street-)- was established in 
1865 ; capital, $40,000 ; number of employes, 75 ; weekly pay-roll, 
$600 ; yalue of annual production, 1150,000. Manufacture pack- 
ing boxes, and do a general planing and lumber-dressing busi- 
ness. 

THE jSTORTH star PLANING MILL — Geo. G. Rob- 
IKSOK & Co., Proprietors — 367 to 371 Sedgwick street — was 
established in 1872, with a capital of 130,000; number of em- 
ployes, 51 ; weekly pay-roll, 1600 ; value of annual production, 
$50,000. Manuftxctures sash, doors, blinds, mouldings, etc. ; also 
does a general planing, lumber-dressing, turning and scroll-sawing 
business. 

THE PLANING MILL of Messrs. W. N. Pond and A. C. 
SoPER (Pond & Soper), at 22 Loomis street, was established in 
1868 ; capital invested, 135,000 ; employs 40 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $350 ; turns out 10,000,000 feet planed and dressed 
lumber annually ; also manufactures mouldings, etc. 

M. S. COBB & BRO.'S PLANING MILL — at 42 and 44 
Blackwell street — was established in 1870, on an investment of 
$20,000, and employs 25 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $300. 
The value of their annual production is $75,000. Thev do a 
general planing business, and manufacture, as a specialty, tele- 
graph-pole arms. 

TSE-SASH, DOOR AND BLIND MANUFACTORY of 

Holtslander, Randall & Daniels, was- -established in 1871. 

, This firm having succeeded Holtslander & Randall, who were bu rii- 

\ ed out in the great fire of October 9, 1871, located at the corner cf 

'"North Sangamon and Carroll streets. They have a capital .invests; I 

of $75,000, and employ 125 hands, and disburse a pay-roll of 

$5,000 monthly. The value of tlieir annual production is $250,000. 



52 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

They manufacture sash, doors, mouldings, blinds ; build stairs, and 
carry large stocks of mouldings, pine and hard wood flooring, 
balusters, stair railing, etc. Confine their attention exclusively 
to manufacturing for the city trade, and manufacture nothing 
but first class work. We regret to state that since the above was 
written, this extensive establishment has been partially destroyed 
by fire. We hope to see the firm rise once more, su23erior to their 
misfortunes, and soon set the wheels of industry running again. 



THE PLANING MILL AND SASH, DOOR AND BLIND 
^ jyt^tNUFACTOHY of William Goldie — corner of Canal and 
Eighteenth street, is one of the oldest establishments of the kind in 
the city, having been established in 1851. Mr. Goldie has a present 
capital of $75,000 in the business; emplo3^s 160 hands, with a 
weekly pay-roll of $2,500 ; and the value of his annual produc- 
tion is $450,000. Does a general planing and lumber-dressing 
business, and manufactures sash, doors, blinds, etc. 

LULL & SAMMONS' PLANING MILL— at 209 Canal 
street — was established in 1857; capital invested, $20,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 40 ; monthly pay-roP^ $3,000 ; value of annual ' 
production, $35,000. Do a general planing, lumber manufactur- 
ing and dressing business. 

WOLFF BROS. & CO.'S PLANING MILL AND FAC- 
TORY— at 168, 170 and 172 West Erie street — was established 
in 1872, with a capital of $10,000. They employ 30 hands, and 
disburse a weekly pay-roll of $400. The value of their annual 
j)roduction is $50,000. Manufacture sash, doors, blinds and stairs, 
and do a general planing, wood turning and scroll sawing busi- 
ness. Store and ofiice fixtures a specialty. 

THE PLANING MILL of Soper, Brainard & Co., cor- 
ner of Polk and Beach streets, was established in 1859 ; capital 
invested, $00,000 : employs 50 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$400; value of annual production, $45,000. Planing, dressing 
and matching lumber a specialty. 

SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTORY AND PLAN- 
ING jCILL — Cronkhite, Mayor & Co., Proprietors — corner 
Kingsbury and Illinois streets — establislied in 1871; ca])it;d 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 53 

invested, $30,000 ; number of employes, 35 ; weekly pay-roll, 400 ; 
value of annual production, $75,000. Manufacture sash, doors 
and blinds; also do a large business in planing and matching 
lumber; also dealers in dressed and plain lumber. 

GASTFIELD & JCERNDT have a Planing Mill and Sash, 
Door and Blind Factory at 36 to 40 Second street, which was 
established in 1865. They have $15,000 invested in the business, 
and employ 35 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $450; value of 
annual production, $75,000. Manufacture sash, doors, blinds, 
mouldings, brackets, etc.; also do a general planing, dressing, 
matching and scroll sawing business. 

THE SASH, DOOR AND BLIND MANUFACTOEY of 
F. J. RcELLE & Son, at 351 South Canal street, is another of the 
pioneer establishments of the West side, having been established 
in 1857 ; capital invested, $35,000 ; number of employes, 43 ; 
weekly pay-roll, $450; value of annual production, $55,000. 
Manufacture sash, doors and blinds, and do a general turning 
and scroll sawing business. 

T. H. & A. S. BROWN'S PLANING MILL, AND SASH, 
DOOR AND BLIND MANUFACTORY — was established in 
1865. Capital invested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 30 ; weekly 
pay-roll, $600 ; value of annual production, $50,000 ; Manufacture 
sash, doors and blinds, and do a general planing mill business. 
The establishment was destroyed in the great fire, and rebuilt 
and running in April following that event, 208 to 212 E. Van 
Buren street. 

THE PLANING MILL AND BOX MANUFACTORY of 

Stephens & Healey, Proprietors — 10 Quarry street, near Archer 
avenue — established in 1873 ; capital invested, $35,500 ; number 
of employes, 75 ; weekly pay-roll, $800 ; value of annual pro- 
duction, $120,000. A general planing mill business and rhe 
manufacture of packing boxes a specialty. 

SASH AND DOOR MANUFACTORY AND PLANING 
M«ILL — corner of Pratt and Morgan streets — Ofifice, 249 Mil- 
waukee avenue — F. Ketz, Executor; F. F. Mueller, Superin^ 
tendent — another of the pioneer establishments, having been 



54 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

established in 1853 ; capital invested, $20,000 ; employ 40 hands, 
with a weekly pay-roll of $450 ; value of annual production, 
$45,000. Do a general planing and wood dressing business, and 
manufacture sash, doors, blinds, stairs, etc. 

PLANING MILL, SASH, DOOR AND BLIND MANU- 
FACTORY— foot of Twenty-eighth street — J. Y. Scammoj^. Pro- 
prietor; Sam. and Vic. Lebeau, Managers — established in 1871; 
capital invested, $12,000 ; number of employes, 15, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $200 ; value of annual production, $20,000. Manufac- 
ture doors, sash, window frames, hard wood counters, bank and 
store fixtures, etc. 

PLANINO MILL, SASH AND DOOR MANUFACTORY 
— 731 and 733 West Kinzie street — W. T. Cooley and T. 
Padgham — established in 1872; capital invested, $7,000 ; em- 
ploy eight to ten hands, with a weekly pay-roll of about $150. 
Value of annual production, $18,000. Manufacture sash and 
doors, and window and door frames, mouldings, etc., and do a 
general planing, lumber dressing and scroll sawing business. 

SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTORY of Scheerer & 
LiiTGE, 383 Blue Island avenue; established in 1872; capital, 
$2,000 ; employ six hands ; weekly pay-roll, $120 ; value of annual 
production, probably $10,000. Manufacture sash, doors, blinds, 
brackets, mouldings, etc. 

THE PLANING MILL of Richards & Hukt— 284 Grove 
street — was established in 1861; has a capital of $18,000; em- 
ploys 12 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $240 ; annual produc- 
tion, probably $30,000. Does a general planing business, and 
manufactures floorings, siding, pickets, etc. 

EMERY & STRAIGHT'S PLANING MILL — at 253 and 
255 Twentieth street — was established on a capital of about 
12,500 ; employs six hands, with a weekly pay-roll of about $75, 
and tm-ns out about $10,000 worth of mouldings, pickets, house- 
finishing and bed-spring work. 

THE SASH, DOOR AND BLIND MANUFACTORY of 
JoHiq- Brown — at 178 and 180 West Randolph street — is on5 of 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 55 

the oldest establishments in the city, having been started in 1850, 
when it was ^^away out on the prairie/' with hardly a house in 
sight. Capital invested, $10,000; employ 13 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $175; value of annual production, $8,000 to $10,000. 
Manufactures sash, doors, blinds, mouldings and frames. 

THE SASH, DOGE AND BLIND MANUFACTORY of 
Dtjfour Bros. & Rowe — corner of Morgan and Twenty-first 
streets — -was established in 1865; capital, $12,000 ; employs 40 
hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $400 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, $50,000. Manufacture sash, doors, blinds, and all kinds of 
finish for buildings. This firm furnished the sash, doors and 
blinds for the Exposition building. 

PLANING MILL — J. W.Darkley, Proprietor — 552 South 
Clark street — established in 1871 ; capital, about $3,000 ; number 
of employes, 14; monthly pay-roll, $600 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, $10,000. Makes a specialty of planing and dressing lumber. 

SAW AND PLANING MILL — FitzSimoks & Conjstell, 
Proprietors, foot of Illinois street; established in 1869; capital 
invested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 82, with a monthly pay- 
roll of $3,200 ; annual production, 9,000,000 feet of lumber, valued 
at $160,000. This is the only "saw mill" we have found in the 
city. The timber, in round logs, is rafted across the lake from 
Michigan, and sawed into boards, and planed before leaving the 
mill. They use circular saws. The Company have the contract 
for building and sinking the crib for the south pier, which will 
require 2,000,000 feet of lumber and 10,000 cords of stone. 

LUMBER MANUFACTORY— Geo. E. White, Proprietor; 
122 to 132 ^{mclusive) N. Sangamon street ;/ established, 1858; 
capital invested, $75,000; number of employes, 150; weekly pay- 
roll, $2,500 ; annual production, 11,000,000 feet of lumber ; valued 
at $550,000. Manufacture all kinds of hard-wood lumber ; can 
furnish one million feet on one day's notice. Shipments made 
direct from mills to any point, east or west, or from city yards. 



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PICTURE AND LOOKING-GLASS FRAME MANUFACTORIES. 

( R. B. APPLEBY'S PICTURE AND LOOKING-GLASS 
FRAME MANUFACTORY,«t 180 and 182 East Monroe street, 3 
was established in 1860; capital invested at present, $200,000; 
number of employes, 175 ; weekly pay-roll, $1,500 ; value of 
annual production, $300,000. Manufactures a full line of look- 
ing-glass and picture frames of all styles and descriptions, from 
the plain common to the most elegant and elaborately wrought 
and massive frames; also a great variety of mouldings. Mr. 
Appleby, like so many others, was burned out in the great fire, 
both at the factory, in the present location, and at the extensive 
salesrooms at 109 and 111 Wabash avenue. He commenced the 
erection of the present buildings at once after the fire, and com- 
pleted them in the following April. He now occupies two brick 
structures, the one fronting on Monroe street, 46x100 feet, the 
other, in the rear, 46x90, both five stories and basement in height. 
The working department is in the rear building. He also has a 
lumber-yard in the rear, 66x90 feet in size, which is kept well 
filled with the choicest selected lumber. 

TSE PICTURE-FRAME MANUFAtJTORY of Samz^oks, 
Clark & Co., at 197 and 199 South Clinton and Sebor,''near 
Canal street, was established in 1864, since which it has grown to 
its present immense proportions; the capital invested at the 
present time is §75,000; number of employes, 150; weekly pay- 
roll, $1,400; value of annual production, $250,000. Manufac- 
tures picture and looking-glass frames of every variety and style, 
mouldings, brackets, etc. This firm was burned out in the great 
fire, but with characteristic energy they went to work to repair 
the misfortune, which they have nobly accomplished. They now 
have one of the largest and most complete establishments of the 
kind in the city. They are represented at the grand Exposition, 
by a full line of goods of their manufacture. 

THE PICTURE-FRAME MANUFACTORY of George 
Keller is located at 17, 19, and 21 lUinois street, and the ofiice 
and salesroom is at 111 Madison street. It was established in 
1860, and he has a capital of $48,000 : number of employes. 64. to 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO, 57 

whom is disbursed weekly a pay-roll of $445 ; value of annual pro- 
duction, 1200,000. Mr. Keller has a complete establishment — 
manufactures picture and looking-glass frames, picture-frame 
mouldings, railroad car and room mouldings, railroad bulletin 
boards, parlor pieces and mantel mirrors, looking glasses, etc. He 
was burned out, both in factory and salesroom, but he did not 
stay burned out. A new building for the factory was at once 
erected, and the business was soon started again on a larger and. 
more imposing scale than ever before. 

TAPT & SOHWAMB'S PICTURE-FRAME MANUFAC- 
TORY, at 100 Nineteenth street, was established in 1867 ; capital 
invested, $75,000; number of employes, 75, with a weekly pay-roll 
of 13,000 ; value of annual production, $125,000. Manufacture 
picture frames, bureau looking-glass frames, mouldings, cabinet 
work, etc. 

THE PICTURE-FRAME MANUFACTORY of J. Moore 

& Co. — 176 and 178 East Adams street, and 318 and 320 South 
Clinton — was established in 1872; capital invested, $12,000; 
number of employes, 50 ; weekly pay-roll, $450 ; value of annual 
production, $50,000. Manufacture walnut, rosewood and gilt 
mouldings, picture frames, etc. 

GOODWILLIE & GOODWILLIE (father and son) have a 
—picture frame, and -packing-box manufactory at 35 Ohio street, / 
which was established in 1872 ; capital invested, $15,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 75 ; monthly pay-roll, about $3,000 ; value of ' 
annual production, $110,000. Manufacture, exclusively, oval 
and square black walnut looking glass and picture frames. 

KAUTSKY, JENKINSON & KEITZ — at 210 East Van 
Buren street — manufacture picture and looking-glass frames, 
mouldings, etc. The business was estabhshed in 1867, with a 
capital of $9,000 ; they employ 23 hands, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $275 ; value of annual production, $45,000. 

THE PICTURE-FRAME MANUFACTORY of Schram 
Bros. & Co. — at 70 and 72 West Washington street — was estab- 
lished in 1871; capital invested, $25,000 ; number of employes, 
45 : weekly pay-roll, $500; production, 10,000 feet moulding per 



58 MANUFACTURES OK CHICAGO. 

day ; value of annual production, about $100,000. Manufactur- 
ing, contracting and jobbing of picture frames and mouldings a 
specialty. Are repi'esented at the great Exposition by a full line 
of their manufactures. 



MOULDING MANUFACTORIES. 

AUSTIN & BOYNTON'S ROPE MOULDING MANUFAC- 
TORY— estabhshed in 1868; capital invested, $4,000; employ 7 
hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $125 ; value of annual production, 
^18,000. Manufacture rope mouldings as a specialty, also manu- 
facture spiral mouldings, and do stair work turning. The de- 
miand for these mouldings comes from all parts of the country 
and even from England, several bills of mouldings having been 
sent to t'hat country during the past year. The factory is located 
at 25 N. Jefferson street. Messrs. Austin & Boymton are repre- 
sented in the Exposition by samples of Rope and Si:)iral 
Mouldings. 

SEAVER, TONK & CO. manufacture brackets, carvings, 
etc., at 87 and 89 W. Lake street. They have just commenced 
the business on a capital of about $3,000 ; employ 5 hands, to 
whom they disburse $100 weekly, and will probably turn out 
about $10,000 worth of their goods this year. They also manu- 
facture piano stools as a specialty. 

J. C. HALL & CO., at 23 N. Jefferson street, manufacture 
cabinet mouldings, and do a general scroll sawing and turning- 
business, which was established in 1870, with a capital of about 
$3,000. They employ about four hands, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $75 ; turn out about $6,000 worth of business per year. 

THE MOULDING MANUFACTORY of Felix La^n-;, 
corner Twenty-second and Loomis streets, was established in 
1869 ; capital invested, about $8,000 ; employs 9 hands ; weekly 
pay-roll, about $135 ; value of annual production, $30,000. 
Manufactures exclusively all kinds of mouldings. 



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^ STAIR MANUFACTORIES. 

THE STAIR MANUFACTORY of Tobii^ & Berdan,, 
corner of Ninet^nth and Blackwell streets, was established 
in 1868 ; capital invested, $15,000 ; employ 25 hands ; weekly 
pay\^'oll, $500 ; valu^ of annual production, $95,000. Stair build- 
ing i^the specialty of the establishment. 

THE KIMBALL & SHERIDAN STAIR MANUFAC- 
TURING CO. W4j^-estft^^shed-iTi-1865 ; capital invested, $75,000 ; 
number of employes, 110; semi-monthly pay-roll, $6,300; value 
of annual production, $300,000. Stair building a specialty. 
Among the buildings that have been supplied by this establish- 
ment we may mention the Sherman House, Tremont ^ouse, 
Portland Block, Dore Block, etc. The factory is located /corner 
of Arnold and Seventeenth streets. ; 

HIMMEN & ARENS, Stair Builders, at 40 Wendell street, 
have lately started on a small capital ; employ 6 hands, witli a 
weekly pay-roll of about $100; will produce this year $10,000 
worth of stairs. 

GEORGE ENGELTER, Stair builder, corner of Sedgwick 
and Wendell streets — established the business in 1868, with a 
capital of $2,000; employs 11 men; weekly pay-roll, $200, and 
turns out about $15,000 worth a year. Does first-class work, and 
manufactures straight, crooked and spiral stairs. Was burned 
out in the great fire, but started again soon after. 



FURNITURE MANUFACTORIES. 

There are few branches of manufacture in the city that have 
made greater advance, within the past few years, both in the num- 
ber of establishments and in the amount of production of those 
already established, than that of furniture manufacture. Oui- 
manufacturers of furniture have already established a reputation 
that reaches across the continent, and orders for the entire furni- 
ture for hotels, and elegant and costly dwellings, from the Pacific 
coast, and from the Territories intervening, are not infrequent. 



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60 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

We are certain that our readers will be sui*prised at the number 
as well as the extent of the furniture manufactories of the city. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY q£ A. H. Andrews 
& Co. was established in 1865, since which time it has grown to 
its present immense proportions. Present capital invested, 
$300,000 ; number of employes, 250 ; monthly pay-roll, $12,000 ; 
value of annual production, 1500,000. The manufacture of 
school and church furniture is made a specialty, including school 
desks and seats, settees, superintendents', principals' and teachers' 
desks, church pews, pulpits and chairs ; fine office desks, elaborate 
library chairs and tables ; also, Dills' excelsior marquetry flooring, 
and chess tables made under this patent, inlaid, dove-tailed, 
choice woods. The factory is located at 156 to 170 Mather street. 
Office, salesroom and warerooms, S.W. corner of State and Monroe 
streets, opposite Potter Palmei^'s magnificent hotel. 

THE SUGG & BIERSDORF FURNITURE MANUFAC- 
TURING CO. — Geo. Sugg and J. Biersdorf, I^eprietors — 
was established in 1867; capital invested, 1150,000; number of 
employes, 130; weekly pay-roll, $1,800; annual production, 
$200,000. The manufacture of chamber suits, bedsteads, and 
center tables is made a specialty. Salesroom at 207 and 209 East 
Randolph street. Factory, 400 to 408 South Canal street, at the 
corner of Ewing. The factory building is of brick, 50x130 feet. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of H. S. Carter 
& Co. — 0. D. Angle, Superintendent — was established in 1863 ; 
capital invested, $40,000 ; number of employes, 70 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $1,000 ; value of annual production, $140,000. Manufacture 
a full line of fine and medium parlor furniture and fine chamber 
sets. Factory at 87, 89 and 91 West Lake street. Salesroom and 
manufactory of upholstery goods, at 144 and 146 East Lake street. 
Burned out in the great fire at 196 and 198 Lake street. Opened 
at the factory on West Lake street immediately after the fire. 

SWAN, CLARK & CO.'S FURNITURE MANUFAC- 
TORY was established in 1871; capital invested, $180,000 
They employ 260 hands, and disburse to them weekly a pay-roll 
of $2,800. The value of their annual production is $400,000. 



MAK^UFACTFRES OF CHICAGO. 61 

They manufacture a medium grade for the million ; make a 
specialty of walnut and painted chamber sets. They ship, regu- 
larly, three car loads of furniture to Philadelphia per week, and 
are pioneers in shipping Chicago furniture east. Salesroom and 
office, at 211 and 213 East Monroe street ; building, of brick, live 
stories and basement, 45x182 feet in size. Factory located near 
the corner of Eobey street and Blue Island avenue — a three story 
brick building 50x250 feet, with an L of the same material, 70x40 
feet ; and a store building (frame), 192x30. 

THE THAYER & TOBEY FUE^^ITUEE CO. — Chas. 
ToBEY, President ; F. Porter Thayer, Vice-President : F. B. 
ToBEY, Treasurer; C. J. McAllister, Superintendent — was 
incorporated in 1870 ; capital stock, $150,000 ; number of em- 
ployes, 150 ; monthly pay-roll, $8,000 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, $250,000. Salesroom, corner of State and Adams; Factory, 
corner West Randolph and Jefferson streets. Were burned out at 
77 to 81 State street in the great fire. Opened immediately there- 
after at the factory, and on the day after took an oi'der for the 
furniture for the West side Sherman House. This Company have 
furnished throughout the Grand Pacific, Burke's, the Orient, 
"Browns," and many other houses. Furniture and office fur- 
nishings of the finest kind is a sjoecialty. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of Herhold, Johx- 
SOK & Co., 233 to 251 North Green street, was established in 
January. 1868; capital invested, $60,000; number of employes, 
113, with a weekly pay-roll of $900 to $1,200 ; value of annual 
production, $180,000. Manufacture only chairs, bureaus and 
bureau washstands ; common to medium grades. 

S. W. GOODHUE'S FURNITURE MANUFACTORY, at 
27 North Jefferson street, was established in 1873, with a capital of 
$2,000 ; employs 10 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $175 ; value 
of annual production, $15,000. He makes a specialty of the 
manufacture of the frames of fine parlor furniture. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of McCabe, Wil- 
KINS & Spaulding, 67 N. Wells street, was established in 1865 ; 
capital stock, $30,000 ; number of employes, 18, with a weekly 



62 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

pay-roll of 1^180 ; value of annual production, 1^100,000. This 
firm make a specialty of the manufacture of line parlor furniture. 
They were burned out in the great fire at 203 Lake street, where 
previous to the fire they were doing an immense and profitable 
business; started at the present location in about two weeks after 
the fire, and began filling orders in less than four wrecks. 

HALLER & WARNECKE'S FURN^ITURE FACTORY, 

at 46 and 48 Second street, was established in 18G8 ; capital in- 
vested, $15,000 ; number of employes, 40, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $450; value ox annual production, $75,000. Manufacture 
specially sewing machine furniture for the Victor and Grover & 
Baker Sewing Machines. This firm is represented in the grand 
Exposition by elaborate and ornate Victor and Grover & Baker 
Cabinets. 

PATZACK & SCHULZ FURNITURE MANUFACTORY, 

at 26, 28 and 30 Ridgely street, was established in 1869 ; capital 
invested, $10,000 ; employs 35 hands, with a weekly 2)ay-roll of 
$350 ; value of annual production, $60,000. Sewing Machine 
furniture as a specialty — manufacture for the Howe, Davis, 
Singer, Home, Blees, etc., plain to most costly description. The 
establishment is represented in the Exposition by elegant cabinets 
for the several machines. 

E. J. RILEY'S FURNITURE AND UPHOLSTERY 
ESTABLISHMENT, 176 and 178 East Adams street, was estab- 
lished in 1869 ; capital invested, $20,000 ; number of employes, 
20 ; weekly pay-roll, $270 ; value of annual production, $80,000. 
Makes a specialty of upholstering fine parlo^ furniture, sofas, 
lounges, chairs and parlor suits. Finds his market mostly in the 
country, and to country dealers. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of J. Koenig & Co. 
— 2(J6 to 272 North Green street — was established in 1860. Pre- 
sent capital invested, $35,000; employ 100 hands, with a semi- 
monthly pay-roll of $1,800; value of their annual production, 
$120,000. Manufacture medium and elegant grades of bedsteads 
and tables as a specialty. This firm were burned out in the great 
fire, at 48 and 50 South Wells street, and corner of Beach and 
Mather streets. AVith that energy and pluck which has become 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 63 

proverbial, the firm at once commenced the erection of the build- 
ing now occupied, which was completed, and the wheels of indus- 
try again running in three weeks after the fire. The building is 
a frame, three stories high, 103 feet on North Green, by 150 feet 
on Pratt street. 

E. T. HAMBROOK'S FURNITURE MANUFACTORY — 
John Simmens, Superintendent — Northwest corner of North 
Sangamon and Pratt streets. Was established in 1873 ; capital 
invested, 18,000 ; employs 30 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$250 ; value of annual production, |50,00(). Manufacture church, 
school and fine house furniture; cylinder and office desks a 
specialty. Also furnishes designs for all styles of office, store and 
library finish, and attends to all orders by mail promptly. Mr. 
Hambrook manufactures a cylinder desk, that, for beauty and 
elegance of design and finish, is unsurpassed. It is also furnished 
with a lock of peculiar construction (for which a patent has been 
applied for), that by a double turn of the key on the outside, 
unlocks every draAver and pigeon-hole, both inside and outside 
the desk, as well as the cylindrical slide. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of Louis Schultze 
— 24 to 32 Second street — office and warerooms, 274 and 276 
Milwaukee avenue, is one of the oldest establishments in this 
groupe of industries, having been established in 1857. Capital 
invested, $100,000 ; number of employes, 85 ; weekly pay-roll, 
1900 ; value of annual production, $150,000. Manufactures a 
general line of furniture, and makes parlor and chamber suits a 
specialty. Also manufacture common bedsteads and chairs for 
the million. 

REYNOLDS' TOY FURNITURE CO.— D. M. Reynolds, 
Superintendent — 28 and 30 W. Washington street — was estab- 
lished in 1865 ; capital invested, 125,000 ; number of employes, 
50 ; weekly pay-roll, 1300 ; value of annual production, $50,000. 
Manufacture toy furniture as a specialty. The only manufac- 
turers of Reynolds' Patents — toy tables, bureaus, cribs, cradles, 
bedsteads, doll swings, etc. Also manufacture all kinds of toys 
made of black walnut. They ship goyds to California, New 
York, Boston, and all of the large cities east and west, north and 



64 MAN^UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

south. They were burned out in the great fire at .40 State street, 
but started again the next day and took an order for 7,000 relief 
tables, which were manufactured and delivered forthwith. 

THE SHERWOOD SCHOOL FURNITURE CO.— F. T. 
Ju:n^e, President; H. B. HoRTOis", Secretary; J. G. Coleman, 
Treasurer — 103 to 109 South Canal street, was established in 
1856, incorporated, 1873 ; capital stock, $100,000 ; employs 50 
hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $900 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, $150,000. Manufacture school and church furniture as a 
specialty. The Company was represented in the Vienna Inter- 
national Exposition, and were awarded a prize on school furniture. 
They were burned out in the great fire on E. Madison street. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of C. C. Holtok & 
Co., at 269 and 271 State street, was established in 1869 ; capital 
invested, 58,000 ; number employes, 40 ; monthly pay-roll, $2,400 ; 
value of annual production, $150,000. Manufacture parlor furni- 
ture, lounges, mattresses, bedding, etc. Jobbing trade with 
furniture dealers in the city and country a specialty. This firm 
was burned out in the great fire at 54 Fifth avenue, and at Nos. 
61 and 63 N. Wells street, in June 1873. And still they are 
undiscourao^ed. • 



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AV. J. KRAUSE'S FURNITURE MANUFACTORY, No. 
6 W. Eleventh street, was established in 1858. He employs 75 
hands and turns out $80,000 worth of furniture annually. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of Bowles & 
Bates, located at 11 to 17 South Canal street, was established 
early in 1871, with a capital of $20,000 ; they employ 40 hands, 
and have a monthly pay-roll of $2,500; value of their annual 
production, $75,000. They manufacture a full line of center 
tables, which they make a specialty of their manufacture. They 
also give particular attention to fitting up banks, ofiices and 
dwellings. 

CAHN & BUSHMEYER'S FURNITURE MANUFAC- 
TORY— H. BusHMEYER, Superintendent — 316, 318 and 320 
South Clinton street — established in 1872; capital invested, 
$20,000 ; number of employes, 45 ; weekly pay-roll, $400 ; value 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 65 

of annual production, $575,000. Make a specialty of the manu- 
facture of French bedsteads and center-tables; also manufacture 
elegant chamber sets. 

THE FUKNITURE MANUFACTORY of A. Matuska 
& Co., corner of Canal and Polk streets, was established in 1868; 
capital, 120,000; employ 50 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$750 ; value of annual production, $80,000. Tliis firm make 
the manufacture of dressing-cases and chamber furniture a 
specialty. 

JOSEPH DOWNEY'S FURNITURE MANUFACTORY, 

at 39 North Jefferson street, was established 1873, with a capital 
of 3,000; employs 10 hands; weekly pay-roll, $140; value of 
tinnual production, $12,000. Manufactures chairs and cabinet 
furniture. Does also carving and turning, and a general machiuf 
wood-work. 

FURNITURE MANUFACTORY — Schiefferstein & 
Brc, 439 and 441 State street — established in 1860; capital 
invested, $25,000; number of employes, 12, with a weekly pay- 
roll of $175 ; value of annual production, about $55,000. Manu- 
factures furniture and cabinet ware, and does a general upholster- 
ing and finishing business. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of Doe, Petersen 
& Co. — corner of North Green and Ridgely streets — was estab- 
lished in 1868; capital invested, $6,000; number of employes, 
40 ; weekly pay-roll, $500 ; value of annual production, $40,000. 
Manufacture principally bureaus and bureau handles ; some fif- 
teen styles are made, ranging from common to the most elegant. 
Burned out in the great fire, corner Van Buren and Franklin 
streets ; started again in about tAvo months at present location. 

FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of Laubach .Mark & 
Co., 82 West Washington street, was established September, 1872 ; 
capital invested, $30,000 ; number of employes, 50 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $600 ; value of annual production, $75,000. The firm pay 
out for expense account, $45,000 a year. Manufacture as a 
specialty bureau frames of all sizes. They also manufacture 
about sixty diflferenl: patterns of brackets ; also mouldings, office 



66 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

furniture, etc. These goods are sold in ten different States of 
the Union, and the trade is constantly increasing and extending. 

FURNITURE MANUFACTORY — W. Seng & Co., 26 
and 28 Chicago avenue — established in 1872; capital invested, 
$10,000 ; number of employes, 14, with a weekly pay-roll of about 
$175 ; value of annual production, $48,000. Manufactures a full 
line of parlor furniture in sets, chairs, sofas, bedsteads, etc. ; makes 
a specialty of a patent bed lounge. Also does a general uphol- 
stering business. Are represented in the Exposition by an elegant- 
ly upholstered bed lounge and musical rocking chair. 

FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of B. F. Stone, 552 to 
556 South Clark street — J. W. Clarke, Superintendent — was 
established in 1870 ; capital, $15,000 ; number of employes, 25 ; 
weekly pay-roll, 1300; value of annual production, $30,000. 
Manufactures bureaus, bureau washstands, tables and bedsteads. 

E. CROCKETT, JR.'S FURNITURE MANUFACTORY, 
corner of Roberts and Superior streets — was established in 1867, 
on a capital of about $10,000 ; employs 23 hands, with a w^eekly 
pay-roll of about $275 ; value of annual production, $40,000. 
Manufactures exclusively, bureau looking-glass frames and parlor 
tables. 

FURNITURE MANUFACTORY ; 26, 28 and 30 Brown 
street — J. Butzow & Co. — was established in 1859 by Butzow 
& Brother ; re-established in 1870, by the present firm. Capital 
invested, $12,000 ; employs 30 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$434; value of annual production, $45,000. Manufactures bu- 
reaus and bureau washstands exclusively. 

JOHN RUDOLPH'S FURNITURE MANUFACTORY — 

corner West Erie and F^ay streets — established 1858 ; capital in- 
vested, $6,000 ; employs six hands, with a weekly pay-roll of about 
$75 ; value of annual production, $10,000. Manufacture exclu- 
sively, hard wood extension dining tables. 

ARNETSEN & CO. established the Furniture Manufactory 
at 35 Ohio street in 1871, after the fire. They have about $4,000 
invested ; employ 18 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $200, and 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 67 

turn out about $36,000 worth of furniture a year, which supplies 
the store at 1020 South Halsted street. Manufacture all kinds of 
parlor furniture and chamber sets. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of Schultz, Gobel 
^ Qo. — 52 and 54 West Oak street — was established in 1867. 
They have invested 120,000 ; employ 25 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $325 ; value of annual production, $35,000. Manu- 
facture fine parlor furniture, as a specialty. The establishment 
was entirely destroyed in the great fire, and rebuilt again soon 
after in the same location. 

GILGRIM & GREENFIELD'S FURNITURE MANU- 
FACTORY— at 248 and 250 West Polk street — was established 
in 1871 ; capital, $10,000 ; employ 30 hands, with a weekly pay- 
roll of $300 ; value of annual production, $30,000. Manufacture 
a general line of parlor and chamber furniture. 

JOHN POEHLMER'S FURNITURE FACTORY — at 90 

and 92 Blue Island avenue — was established in 1858 on an 
investment of $15,000; employs 20 hands; weekly pay-roll,. 
$300 ; value of annual production, $25,000. 

FURNITURE MANUFACTORY, 619 Carroll avenue: J. 
M. Allen", Proprietor ; H. M. Allen, Superintendent. Estab- 
lished in 1869; capital invested, $12,000; number of employes, 
40 ; weekly pay-roll, about $475 ; value of annual production, 
$36,000. Manufacture, exclusively, bureaus and bureau wash- 
stands. 

A. RAUCH, FURNITURE MANUFACTORY, 12 and 14 

West Twelfth street, was established in 1868, with a capital of 
$15,000 ; employs 35 hands, and has a weekly pay-roll of $350 ; 
value of annual production, $40,000. Manufactures bedsteads, 
bureaus and washstands as a specialty. 

THE EMPIRE PARLOR BEDSTEAD CO. — D. A. Tit- 
comb & Co., Proprietors — 383 West Madison street — wasesta])- 
lished in 1872 ; capital invested, 20,000 ; number of employes, 
40 ; with a weekly pay-roll of about $500 ; value of annual pro- 
duction, $100,000. The Company manufacture as a specialty the 



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** Empire Parlor Bedstead '' — an article of furniture that is fast 
coming into popularity — being a cabinet combination bed- 
stead, which represents at pleasure, when closed, an elegant 
book-case, marble sideboard, etagere, dressing-case or desk — 
convertible in an instant into a perfect bed. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of A. J. Neu- 
BERGER & Bro., at 207 West Madison street and 153 West Wash- 
ington street, was established in 1865 ; capital invested, $40,000 ; 
number of employes, 35 ; weekly pay-roll, $450 to $500 ; value 
of annual production, $200,000. Manufacture fine and medium 
parlor sets, fancy and common charnber sets, office furniture, 
mattresses, and all other goods belonging to the furniture trade. 

NOVELTY WOOD WORKS — F. R. Wolfinger, Proprie- 
tor — corner Lincoln and West Kinzie streets — were established 
in 18G9; capital invested, about $40,000; number of employes, 
40 ; weekly pay-roll, $600 ; value of annual production, about 
$75,000. Manufacture as a specialty sewing-machine furniture ; 
also manufacture bank, office and store fittings of the most ele- 
gant styles and costly materials. 

FRED FISCHBECK, in 1869, estabhshed a Manufactory at 
809 West Lake street for the manufacture of a Patent Bed- 
Lounge, the most convenient and desirable article of the kind 
extant. He has $6,000 capital invested in the business, and em- 
ploys 9 hands, to whom he disburses a weekly pay-roll of $100 ; 
the value of his annual production is $14,000. He sells the 
frames to upholsterers, and also does an extensive upholstering 
business himself. He is represented in the grand Exposition by 
one patent bed-lounge of elegant workmanship. 

E. SCHWENN runs a Furniture- Manufactory at 175 W. 
Erie street, which was established in 1869, with a capital of $5,000. 
He employs 4 hands on a weekly pay-roll of about $50, and turns 
out about $5,000 worth of lounge frames, which he makes a 
specialty. Also, does a general wood turning business. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of Spratt & Par- 
ker, at 151 West Washington street, was established in 1870, 
ciipital invested, $15,000 ; number of employes, 10, with a monthly 



MANLIFACTUKES OF CHICAGO. 69 

pay-roll of ^800. Value of annual production, 140,000. Manu- 
facture all descriptions of office desks, as a specialty. They are 
also general dealers in parlor and chamber furniture. 

DIMMEST & MARTH, at 242 W. Polk street, manufacture 
exclusively French Bedsteads. They established the business in 
1871, with a capital of 16,000, and employ 20 hands, with a 
weekly pay-roll of $250. The value of their annual production 
is $20,000. 

E. D. MILLER — corner West Lake and Jefferson streets — 
established a factory in 1869, for the manufacture of all kinds of 
office desks, office and store fittings, etc. ; capital invested, $3,000 ; 
number of employes, 12, with a semi-monthly pay-roll of $450; 
value of his annual production, $15,000. 

J. BIERSDORF does an extensive Upholstering business, 
which was established in 1856, with a capital of $5,000 ; eni})loys 
29 hands, and has a weekly pay-roll of $350. The value of his 
annual productions is $72,000. Upholsters fine parlor furniture, 
and especially parlor suits, sofas, etc.; also a patent bed-lounge. 
He is at 207 and 209 E. Randolph street ; was burned out at 172 
Lake street. 

A. N. HORNUNG manufactures Furniture and does a gen- 
eral Upholstering business, at 597 N. Wells street. The business 
was established in 1872 ; capital invested, $2,000. He employs 3 
hands ; weekly pay-roll, $60 ; value of annual production, $15,000. 
He makes a specialty of upholstering fine parlor furniture, and 
manufacturing mattresses and lounges — common to fine. 

FURNITURE MANUFACTORY — C. H.Warnecke — 154 

and 156 West Erie street — was established in 1865 ; capital 
invested, $7,000 ; employs 15 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$225 ; value of annual production, $20,000. Manufactures ex- 
clusively all kinds of office furniture — desks in infinite variety, 
tables, book-cases, cabinets, etc. 

FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of Keppes & Eggers, at 
161 West Chicago avenue — established in 1872 ; capital invested, 
about $4,000 ; employs seven hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 



70 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

$125 ; value of annual production, $15,000. Manufactures office 
furniture as a specialty ; also store fittings, etc. Turns out some 
elegant work. 

E. OAVANNA, at 645 West Madison street, does a general 
Upholstering business in Parlor Furniture, which was established 
in 1872, on 12,000 capital. Employs 3 hands, and turn,« out 
about $5,000 Avorth a year. 

LANDSIDER, WISKIS & CO. established a Furniture Manu- 
factory, in 1872, at the corner of Laflin and Sixteenth streets; 
capital invested, $3,000 ; employs 12 hands ; weekly pay-roll, $150 ; 
value of annual production, $9,000. Manufacture a general line 
of furniture ; also, office furniture and fittings. 

THE FUENITURE MANUFACTORY of Eohn & Bro.— 

426 Maxwell street — was established in 1867; capital invested, 
$10,000 ; employ 23 hands ; weekly pay-roll, about $275 ; value 
of annual production, $25,000. Manufacture exclusively bed- 
steads of every variety, style and price. 

A. GREGERSEN & CO., at 29 and 31 North Jefferson street, 
in May, 1873, commenced the manufacture of fluted furniture 
legs, balusters, newell posts, etc., with new patent mnchinerv. 
They employ eight hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $125. They 
have invested in the business $3,000, and they expect to turn out 
$20,000 worth of work during the year. 

FURNITURE MANUFACTORY— Chas. Wippo, Proprie- 
tor; Chas. Betsche, Superintendent — 99 W. Madison street — 
was established in 1853 ; one of the pioneer works of the city ; 
capital invested, $50,000; employs 25 hands; weekly pay-roll, 
$200 ; value of annual production, $75,000. Manufactures par- 
lor and chamber suites. Dining hall and office furniture a 
specialty. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of D. M. Swiney 
& Bro. — 507 to 513 W. Kinzie street — was established in 1865; 
capital invested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 85 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $1,275 ; value of annual production, $150,000. Make the 
manufacture of cabinet and office furniture a specialty ; also 



MAlfUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 71 

manufacture library cases, and the latest and most artistic styles 
of furniture for private and public rooms. Their facilities for 
manufacture are unsurpassed, having two large buildings, besides 
engine house, dry house, etc. 

F. BUSSE & OO.'S FURNITURE MANUFACTORY — 
470 and 472 Mitchell street — was established in 1861; capital 
invested, -$15,000 ; number of employes, 15 ; weekly pay-roll, 
1140. The establishment is doing a good and profitable business 
in the manufacture of bedsteads, tables and washstands. 

THE FURNITURE MANUFACTORY of John Kraus — 
% Eleventh street — was established in 1857; capital invested, 
170,000 ; number of employes, 75 ; Aveekly pay-roll, $800 ; value 
of annual production, 1100,000. Manufacture bedsteads, dress- 
ing cases, bureaus, book-cases; also, chain's, tables, sideboards, 
etc. Also, do a general carving, turning, scroll sawing and plan- 
ing business. The store and warehouse is at 219 Blue Island 
avenue. 



CHAIR MANUFACTORIES. 

THE CHAIR MANUFACTORY of the Johj^^ Phillips 
Estate — Alexander Blair, Superintendent — North Green, 
near West Erie street — was established in 1842; capital invested, 
160,000; employs 70 hands ; weekly pay-roll, $800 ; value of annual 
l^roduction, $90,000. Manufacture chairs almost exclusively, and 
make the common wooden-bottom Windsor chair a specialty. This 
is one of the oldest manufacturing establishments in the city, if not 
the oldest, and still it exhibits all the energy and enterprise of its 
younger contemporaries. 

V^ «^HE J. S. FORD, JOHNSON & CO. CHAIR MANUFAC- 
TORY — offi^ia and «aksroom, 211 and 213 East Monroe street- 
was established in 1866; capital imested, $75,000; employs 250 
hands ; value of annual production, $175,000. Manufacture cane- 
seat chairs of all styles and descriptions. Are represented in the 
grand Exposition by a full line of their manufacture. 

THE CHAIR FACTORY of Phillips & Leibej^ stein — 
Nos. 7 CO 21 Superior street — was established in 1863; capital 



72 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

invested, J|45,000 ; number of employes, 00, with a weekly pay- 
roll of $550 ; value of annual production, 160,000. The works 
are carried on under the supervision of Mr. John Phillips. They 
manufacture a full line of cane and wooden-seat chairs of all kinds 
and styles. They were burned out in the great fire, but immedi- 
ately rebuilt in the same location. Their building is frame, with 
brick outside, 40x100 feet, and five stories high. 

HARBERT & CO. — 294 State street— have just commenced 
the manufacture of Heath's Invalid Chair and Bed. This is the 
most complete thing of the kind yet manufactured, and is highly 
approved by the Faculty. Should the demand be equal to its 
merits the manufacture will be largely increased. It is a com- 
bination upholstered article that may be at once converted into a 
chair, reclining chair, or bed. 



BILLIARD-TABLE MANUFACTORIES. 

t THE J. M. BRUNSWICK & BALKE COMPANY — 
Mliard-Table Manufactory — 62 Lake street-)- was established 
in 1848, and is the oldest house in the Northwest; capital in- 
vested, 1200,000 ; number of employes, 60 ; weekly pay-roll $900 ; 
annual production, 700 tables, valued at $400,000. This Com- 
pany has furnished tables for Foley's Hall, the Matteson House, 
the Orient (St. James) Hotel, LaBerge's Hall, and many others, 
350 of their tables having been put up, and are now in use in 
this city. Their trade extends from Canada to Mexico, and from 
the Alleghenies to the Pacific coast. Large rooms with their 
tables in every principal hotel in the West. The factory was 
burned out in the great fire at 47 and 49 State street. Are repre- 
sented in the Exposition by four elegant tables. ' 

\/ EMANUEL BRUNSWICK & CO.'S BILLIARD-TABLE 

MANUFACTORY — 47 and 49 State street— was estabhshed in 
1853 ; capital invested, $100,000 ; number of employes, 65 ; weekly* 
pay-roll, $1,200 ; annual production, 450 tables, valued at $175,000. 
Mr. Brunswick is the oldest manufacturer in this line in the 
West. This Company was burned out in the great fire in the 
same location, and started again in two days after at 1015 State 



MAXUFACTUKES OF CHICAGO. 73 

street, where they remained until they returned to their old and 
present quarters. Messrs. Emanuel Brunswick & Co. have the 
finest billiard hall on the continent, on Washington street, 
opposite the Court House. They are represented in the Exposi- 
tion by tables of their manufacture. 

STEPHAXI, MOXHEIMER & HART'S-BILLIARD-TA- i^^ 
-BLE MANUFACTORY — 191 and 193 Randolph street, corner 
Fifth avenue-^ was established in ISii."; ; number of employes, 60; 
weekly pay-roll, 8500; annual production, 350 billiard-tables, 
valued at 8150,000. The manufacture of billiard-tables is a 
specialty ; also manufacture pigeon-hole and Jenny Lind tables, 
and deal largely in billiard materials. They have sixteen tables 
at Tom Foley's, eight at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and nine at the 
•• West Side Billiard Rooms,'' and numbers in the various billiard 
rooms in the city and county ranging from one to eight. This 
Company are represented in the grand Exposition by one of their 
best tables. 

A. ZELLER'S BILLIARD-TABLE MANUFACTORY — 

24 and 26 Washington street, and 37 and 39 South Canal street 
— established in 1867; capital invested, 825,000; number of em- 
ployes, 30; weekly pay-roll, 8500; annual production, 250 tables, 
valued at 8100,000. Manufactures billiard-tables exclusively. 
The billiard hall of the Central Hotel has nine of the Zeller 
tables; the Commercial Hotel, six; the New Clifton, six, etc., 
etc. Mr. Zeller was burned out in the great fire at 148 State 
street, and started again in a few days at his present place. He 
is represented in the grand Exposition by sample tables of his 
manufacture. 



SHOW CASE MANUFACTORIES. 

THE NORTHWESTERN SHOW CASE MANI'FACTUR- 
ING CO. — J. RiswiG, President; Jos. Mo>s-k, Secretary; J. D. 
Vredenburgh, Treasurer — 59 and 61 S. Canal street; incorpo- 
rated April, 1872; capital invested, 810,000; employs 15 hands; 
weekly pay-roll, 8275; value of annual production, 840,000. 
Manufacture every style and variety of show cases, with some 



74 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

specialties not made by other houses — have great improvement 
in bent work of every description. Burned out in the great fire 
iit 51 to 55 LaSalle street. 

THE SHOW CASE MANUFACTORY of Dixox & Co. 
successors to L. A. Vredexburgh — 134 Lake street, was estab- 
lished in 1871 ; capital invested, $5,000 ; number of employes, 9 ; 
weekly pay-roll, about $125 ; annual production, 600 cases, valued 
at $30,000. Manufacture all kinds of show cases, metal, wood, and 
the two combined — round, square, mansard, etc. Are repre- 
sented at the grand Exposition by samples of their manufacture. 

M. ANDERSON'S SHOW CASE MANUFACTORY, at 82 

State street, was established in 1870 ; capital invested, $5,000 ; 
number of employes, 8 ; weekly pay-roll, $150 ; value of annual 
production, $25,000. Manufactures all kinds of show cases, oval 
and pentagonal a specialty. Has samples at the grand Exposition. 

EXCELSIOR SHOWCASE CO.— J.E. Berry, Proprietor — 
288 State street, established in 1872 ; capital, about $1,000 ; employs 
4 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $75 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, about $7,000. Manufacture principally metal show cases. 
Furnished the stores of Rice & Thompson, 500 State street, 0. P. 
Boynton, jeweler, Sprague & Warner, and many others. 

JOHN GILES, manufactures show cases, at 46 Franklin 
street; established the business in 1868. Has about $500 
invested, and 3 hands. Turns out about $5,000 worth of cases 
per annum. Supplied the stores of Bliss & Torry, Boynton 
& Killam, Steel & Price, D. B. Fisk & Co. and many more. 

S. B. MARTIN, SHOW CASE MANUFACTURER, at 57 

State street, established the business in 1864; has about $1,000 
invested ; employs 3 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of about $60, 
and turns out about $12,000 worth of cases a year. Manufactures 
mostly metal show cases. His market is principally among the 
country dealers. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 75 



REFRIGERATOR MANUFACTORIES. 

JOHN W. BENT (late Bent & Goward) has one of the largest 
manufactories of the kind in the city, of which S. A. Bent is the 
superintendent. The business was established in a small way in 
1855, and has steadily increased to its present dimensions. The 
capital invested is 1140,000 ; employs 95 hands, and disburses a 
weekly pay-roll of $1,800. The annual production is 6,000 
refrigerators, valued at $100,000. Occupies a fine brick build- 
ing — 207 and 209 East Monroe street — five stories (and base- 
ment) high, 41x182 in size. Manufactures refrigerators, ice 
boxes, water coolers, beer coolers, etc. ; has the patent for ventilated 
refrigerators. The business was destroyed in the great fire on 
Madison street, and the erection of the present building was 
commenced soon after. 

THE FISHER REFRIGERATOR MANUFACTORY — 

H. C. Vak Schaack, Jr., Proprietor — 50 State street — was 
established in 1865 ; capital invested, about $20,000 ; number of 
employes, 16 ; weekly pay-roll, $300 ; value of annual production, 
about $30,000. The factory is located at 991 Michigan avenue, 
where he manufactures principally the movable family sizes. To 
show the popularity of this style of refrigerator, it may be stated 
that during the past year there has been manufactured, of sta- 
tionary refrigerators for family use, butchers, packers, brewers, 
and railway cars, an excess of $200,000 worth, all under the direct 
supervision of the patentee, Mr. Fisher. 



PACKING-BOX MANUFACTORIES. 

ULRICH & DORR'S BOX MANUFACTORY — 763 to 

769 Canal street — was established m 1871, capital mvested, 
$20,000 ; number of employes, 25 ; weekly pay-roll, $400 ; value 
of annual production, $40,000. Manufacture exclusively packmg 
boxes. 

THOS. GOODWILLIE'S BOX MANUFACTORY — corner 

^ of Twenty-second and Throop streets — was established in 1864 
on a capital of $10,000 : emi)loys 25 hands, to whom he disburses 



76 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

weekly m pay-roll of 1500 ; value of annual production, 130,000, 
Manufactures all kinds of packing boxes, tea chests, etc. This 
manufactory was burned out in March, 1872, at the corner of 
Twenty-second and Loomis streets, by which the proprietor was 
seriously crippled in his business. Previous to the fire he em- 
ployed on an average 125 hands. 

CLARK & HUTOHINS' BOX MANUFACTORY — on 
Quarry street, near Archer avenue — was established in 1865; 
capital invested, $45,000 ; employ 70 hands, with a monthly pay- 
roll of $2,700; value of annual production, $200,000. Manufac- 
ture packing boxes of every description ; also dock, sort and dress 
lumber by the cargo. 



WOODEN TANK AND CISTERN MANUFACTORIES. 

LOUIS WENDNAGEL'S FACTORY — at 792 and 794 State 
street — was established in 1869, with a capital of about $5,000; 
employs 10 handrf, and disburses a weekly pay-roll of $150; 
annual production, $15,000. Manufactures cisterns, brewers'" 
tubs, doublers, beer puncheons, railroad tanks, etc. 

THOS. McNAMARA'S TANK MANUFACTORY — 236 W. 

Lake street — was established in 1859; capital invested, about 
$5,500 ; employs about 6 hands ; weekly pay-roll $115 ; value of 
annual production, about $14,000. He makes a specialty of rail- 
road tanks ; also, manufactures stills, doublers, cisterns, rectifiers,, 
brewers* pickling tubs, etc. 



COFFIN MANUFACTORY. 

THE COFFIN MANUFACTORY of Messrs. Boyd & Hill 
— corner Franklin and Tyler streets — was established m 1866;. 
capital mvested, $60,000 ; number of employes, 50 ; monthly pay- 
roll, $3,000 ^ production 2,000 coffins per month, or 24,000 per 
year. This is the oldest and most extensive estiiblishment of the 
kind m the West, and their goods are shipped to dealers all over 
the West, as far as California. 



MANL'FACTURKS OF CHICAGO. w' 



LADDER MA^^UFACTORY. 

/ 

THE UDELL LADDER AND AVOODEN-WARE COM- 

PAjVY, Nos. CG3 and 665 State street: C. G. Udell, President; 
]\fY-Lso-i?AKD, Secretary and Treasurer; B. H. Campbell, Assist- 
ant Secretary and Treasurer. The business was established by 
0. G. Udell in 1864 on a small scale, and has since grown into a 
large and flourishing business ; capital invested at present, 860,000 ; 
number of employes, about 80 ; annual production, 40,000 step 
ladders, valued at $175,000. Manufacture principally step ladders 
of all descriptions; have manufactured during the past year 4,000 
long and painters' ladders, besides a large number of articles in 
the wooden-ware line for domestic use. These goods are sent to 
all parts of the Uuited States and South America, and to all 
foreign countries except Asia, Japan and Australia. Have branch 
houses in New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and St. Louis. 



LAST AND BOOT-CRIMP MANUFACTORY. 

THE LAST MANUFACTORY of Messrs. Ixgraham & 
Co. — at 173 South Clinton street — was established in 1869; 
capital invested, $8,000; number of employes, 10; weekly pay- 
roll, $150; annual production, 6,000 pairs of lasts, valued at 
$20,000. Manufacture, specially, lasts and boot crimps. 



SHINGLE MANUFACTORY. 

THE SHINGLE MANUFACTORY of E.L. Smith — corner 
of Loomis and Twenty-second streets — was established in 1855; 
capital invested, $20,000 ; number of employes, 20 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $200; annual production, 15,600,000 shingles, valued at 
$50,000. 



HOOP-POLE MANUFACTORY. 

THE NORTHWESTERN HOOP COMPANY — J. C. Par- 

soj^s, Superintendent — Fifth-street crossing of C. & N. W. R. R. 
— was established in 1872; capital invested, $40,000 ; number of 



78 MANUFA(TURES OF CHK AGO. 

employes, 20 ; weekly pay-roll, about $400; annual production, 
3,000,000 hooi^s and box straps, valued at $G0,000. Manufacture 
hickory and oak half-round hoops from poles, and pork-box and 
merchandise-box straps, and hay hoops from hickory, oak and 
birch, by machinery. The poles come from Wisconsin, Minne- 
sota, Iowa and Indiana. This is the only manufactory for making 
hoops and straps with the bark on. 



PATTEM MANUFACTORIES.' 

JOHN B. GAMI, MANUFACTUKEK of PATTERNS, 87 
to 91 W. Lake street; established the business in 18(51; capital 
invested, $5,000; employs 14 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
about $150; value of annual production, $15,000. Manufactures 
wooden patterns of every description, principally for foundry use. 

P. G. ROSS & SON, MANUFACTURERS of PATTERNS, 

and Models of all kinds and sizes, 29 N. Jefferson street; employs 
3 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of $150. 

IVER LARSEN, MANUFACTURER OF PATTERNS 
AND MODELS, 11 S. Jefferson street; capital invested, $3,000; 
employs 3 hands; monthly pay-roll, $150; value of annual pro- 
duction, $6,000. 



FURXTTURE MANUFACTORY. 

A. L. HALE & BRO., MANUFACTURERS OF FURNI- 
TURE — 10 to 16 North Canal street^- established the business 
in 1854; capital invested at present, $200,000; number of em- 
ployes, 150; weekly pay-roll, $3,500; value of annual produc- 
tion, $600,000. Manufacture every variety and style of furni- 
ture — elegant parlor and chamber sets, etc. They make a 
specialty of hotel and government work, having furnished com- 
pletely, during the past year, the Sherman House and the new 
Briggs, the Marine Hospital of this city, the Custom House at 
St. Paul, Minn., a large nev/ Hotel at Yankton, Dacotah, and 
another in Salt Lake City, besides several others of lesser note in 
tills city. They have also done an immense business, of the 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. ^9 

ordinary line, in furnishing private residences. Messrs. A. L. 
Hale & Bro. established the furniture business nearly twenty 
years ago, in a very modest way, and it has grown to its present 
enormous proportions through the untiring energy, enterprise 
and lionorable dealings of its founders. The house stands at the 
head of the furniture manufacture and trade in the Northwest, 
and is still expanding. 



CIGAR BOX MANUFACTORIES. 

THE CIGAR BOX MANUFACTORY of Boorman Bros., 
103 S. Canal street, was established in 1871 ; employs 15 hands, 
with a monthly pay-roll of about $600 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, $35,000. Manufacture cigar boxes of all kinds ; also deal 
in labels, trimmings and ribbons, and cigar box tacks. 

G. MERZ, MANUFACTURER of CIGAR BOXES, 240 N. 
Franklin street — established the business in 18()8 ; has about 
$5,000 invested ; employs 7 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of about 
$100 ; value of annual production, $15,000. Manufactures cigar 
boxes exclusively. 



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MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



MAxNUFACTURES m WOOD -SUMMARY. 



Manufactures in wood, of every kind 147 

Total capital invested $9,079,400 

number of employes 9,170 

amount of wages paid weekly $94,503 

" amount of wages paid monthly 63,075 

" aggregate wages paid per month „ . 473,683 

wages paid per year 5,673,196 

production for the year 18,607,000 

Comprising : 



Planing mills — sash, doors, blinds, j 49 

Furniture manufactories. 59 

Picture frame manufactories 8 

Refrigerator manufactories. j 3 

Bracket and moulding manufactor's ' 3 

Packing box manufactories I 4 

Coffin manufactory I 1 

Hoop-pole manufactory 1 

Ladder and wood ware manufactory, 1 

Rope mould. & looking-glass frame, 2 

Shingle manufactory 1 

Cistern and Tank manufactories 3 

Chair manufactories... 4 

Stair manufactories , 4 

Piano manufactories 3 

Organ manufactory 1 

Pump manufactory 1 

Cigar box manufactories 3 



Capital. 



No. i Monthly \ Annual 
El up. I \\ ages. Prod uction . 



$3,977,000 

1,970,500 

540,000 

150,000 

13,500 

85,000 

60,000 

40,000 

60,000 

304,000 

20,000 

6,500 

183,000 

63,800 

5,000 

10,000 

75,000 

15,000 



3.918 

3.519 

653 

111 

18 

145 

50 

30 

60 

183 

30 

14 

430 

152 

5 

15 

30 

33 



$182,071 

134,343 

87,568 

8.935 

1,353 

6,737 

4,000 

400 

4,000 

6,906 

900 

755 

16,783 

9,857 

531 

1,060 

1,500 

818 



$8,678,000 

4,717,000 

1,180,000 

130,000 

37,000 
320,000 
100,000 

60,000 
175,000 
318,000 

50,000 

39,000 
235,000 
393,000 

10.000 

39,000 
100,000 

50,000 



Manufactures in "W^ood and Iron. 



WAGON AND CARRIAGE MANUFACTORIES. 

Tliere are few branches of manufacture in the city more 
extensively developed than that of wagons and carriages. While 
we have probably the largest wagon manufactory in the entire 
country, if not in the w^orld, there is a large number of medium 
sized establishments. In addition to those given herein, the 
larger number of blacksmith and repair shops turn out more 
or less wagons. 

^ PETER SCHUTTLER, WAGON MANUFACTORY — 
Peter and Hknry Schuttler & Chr. IIotz, Proprietors — 
established in 1843; number of employes, about 200; weekly 
pay-roll, about 13,000; annual production, 7,000 to 8,000 wagons. 
They manufacture principally farm and freight wagons, the 
market for which is found throughout the Western States and 
Territories. From Texas to Oregon, the " Schuttler Wagon " has 
the liighest reputation. 

This manufactory was established by the father of the pres- 
ent proprietors, Messrs. Peter & Henry Schuttler, in 1843, and is 
the pioneer establishment of the kind in the city, being, by sev- 
eral years, the oldest now running. It was located in 1843, on 
the corner of Randolph and Franklin streets, then quite out in 
the countr}', where the business grew and prospered — as all busi- 
ness will when managed economically, energetically and honora- 
bly — until destroyed in the great conflagration of Oct. 9th, 1871. 
Work was commenced on the present factory a few days after the 
lire, and the buildings were completed early in January follow- 
ing. Fortunately they had lost but little stock in the fire, and 
they were therefore all in running order as soon as the buildings 
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82 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

unci machinery were ready. The present buildings have a front 
on Clinton street of 250 feet by IGO on Monroe street. They are 
all four stories and basement, except the office and engine house, 
* which are separate buildings, two stories liigh. 

After the death of the founder of this immense establishment, 
Peter Schuttler, the business was conducted by Peter Schuttler, 
jr., until about two years ago, when the present firm, consisting 
of Peter and Henry Schuttler and Chr. Hotz, was organized 
under the original name. This is undoubtedly the most exten- 
sive establishment of the kind in the United States, and in all 
respects a model institution. The business is still growing, and 
practically there is no limit to its expansion. As the vast regions 
of tlie West, between the Mississippi Valley and the Pacific 
Ocean, becomes developed the demand increases, and with a rep- 
utation already established throughout the country, the " Schut- 
tler Wagon" will hold the growing market. It* is just such vast 
hives of industry as t'hese that have grown up from the small 
beginnings, that are fast giving to Chicago her distinctive feature 
as tlie great manufacturing metro-iolis of the Northwest. 

[/^ THE COAN & TEN BROEKE CARRIAGE MANUFAC- 
TURING CO.— I). H. CoAN, President ;vC. 0. Ten Broeke, 
Secretary; H. L. Nichols, Superintendent — corner W. Randolph 
and May streets ; was established in 1854, and is one of the pio- 
neer carriage establishments in the city, there being but one 
older. The capital stock of the Company is 1300,000 ; number of 
employes, 150 ; monthly pay-roll, $8,000 ; value of annual pro- 
duction, 8500.000. The specialty of their manufacture is fine, 
light buggies and carriages, family carriages, etc. The Company 
is represented in the grand Exposition by eight vehicles, in 
department E, section 5. 

PENNOYER, SHAW & CO.'S CARRIAGE MANUFAC- 
TORY, corner Wabash avenue and Congress street,: was estab- 
lished in 1857 ; capital invested, $35,000 ; number of employes, 
35 ; weekly pay-roll, $600 ; annual production, in value, $100,000. 
The Company manufactures, specially, f and J top and open 
buggies and trotting sulkies, and fine carriages ; also dealers in 
fine carriages. Burned out in the same location in the great fire 
of October 0, 1871, and the present building was put up and the 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 83 

Company commenced business in good shape in less than three 
weeks. The firm have a fall line of light buggies of their own 
manufacture in the Exposition. 

NOVELTY CARRIAGE WORKS — G. W. Bohanon, 

Proprietor — 58 and 60 West Madison street; established in 1856 ; 

capital invested, 1^15,000; employs 25 workmen, with a weekly 

pay-roll of 1300. The value of annual production, J^45,000. 

Makes a specialty of the manufacture of skeleton wagons, sulkies, 
and all kinds of light work. 

R. J. BEAL'S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, at 142 and 
144 West Madison street, was established in 1857. He has about 
$15,000 invested and employs 16 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$200, and turns out annually about $30,000 worth of carriages. 
He makes a specialty of light work. 

THE WAGON AND CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY of 
C. J. Hull was established in 1863, at the corner of Ashland 
avenue and Bushnell street. The capital invested is $30,000, and 
20 hands are employed at a weekly pay-roll of $350. The value 
of the annual production is $75,000. Manufactures wagons, 
carriages and omnibuses, and also does a general repaning busi- 
ness. The establishment is under the management of F. D. 
Cummings. 

CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY of Johk G. Parsons, 155 
West Washington street, was established in 1868, with a capital 
of $15,000. He employs 30 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
about $350. The value of his annual production is $40,000. 
Mr. Parsons manufactures first-class light, open and top buggies, 
and makes a specialty of gentlemen's f to |- road wagons. The 
manufactory is located at Austin, one of Chicago's immediate 
suburbs. 

HENRY WILLETT'B CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, 

located at 80 and 82 East Twelfth street, was established in 1857 ; 
he has about $45,000 invested, and employs 40 hands, to whosTi 
he disburses weekly $600 ; the value of his annual production is 
about $100,000. He manufactures principally buggies and car- 
riages, and is also a dealer in all kinds of heavy and light car- 



84 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

riao^es. Mr. Willett's establishment is one of the most convenient 
and commodious of the kiud in the city. Has a full line of car- 
riages at the Exposition. 

ROSSOW BROS. & CO.'S WAGON MANUFACTORY, 

•«t 128 to 134 Chicago avenue, was established in 1859 ; the capi- 
tal invested is $50,000, and 40 hands are employed, on a monthly 
pay-roll of $2,000 ; they turn out annually about $75,000 worth 
of wagons. They make the manufacture of farm wagons a 
specialty. The establishment is complete — turning out the 
wagons complete from the raw material. The works were en- 
tirely destroyed in the great fire of October 9, 1871, but were 
immediately rebuilt on a larger scale, and by the first of Decem- 
ber following were in complete runn-ing order again. 

THE GARDEN CITY CARRIAGE WORKS — 731 to 735 

State street — Hayde & O'Brian, Proprietors — were established 
in 18G9 ; capital invested, $18,000 ; number of employes, 25 ; 
weekly pay-roll, $300; value of annual production, about $36,000. 
McWiufacture light carriages, buggies and trotting wagons princi- 
pally ; also do a general repairing business. The works were 
burned out in the great fire at 83 and 85 Quincy street, but were 
running again in full force at the present location in three weeks 
or less. 

THE WAGON AND CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY of 

P.Smith & Co. — 53 and 55 North Wells street — was estab- 
lished in 18G2, and they have about $14,000 invested in the busi- 
ness. They employ 22 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $350. 
The value of their annual productijon is $G0,000. The specialty 
of this establishment is the manufacture of light wagons, car- 
riages, milk and market wagons, and family carriages. Messrs. 
Smith & Co.'s works, near their present location, were entirely 
destroyed in the great fire, but with the real Chicago pluck they 
at once erected temporary quarters, and in two weeks were run- 
ning again in full force. 

J. S. TOWER & CO.'S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY — 
located at 105 to 109 South Clinton street — was established in 
1868, with a capital of $20,000. They employ 25 workmen, with 
a weekly pay-roll of $400. The value of their annual production 



is placed at $85,000. They manufacture principally carriages, 
buggies and light wagons. The establishment is represented in 
the great Exposition by a full line of its manufacture. 

THE CARRIAGE MA:NUFACT0RY of JoHi^ H. Klii^e 

— at 50 West Adams street — is the oldest establishment of the 
kind in the city, it having been established in 1851 — twenty-two 
years ago. Mr. Kline has about $25,000 invested in the business, 
and employs 30 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $450. He turns 
out annually about $50,000 worth of carriages, buggies and light 
wagons, which he makes a specialty of his manufacture. He has 
carriages and buggies at the Exposition. 

P. CAMPBELL established his Carriage Manufactory at 259 
South Canal street, in 1868, with a capital of about $11,000. He 
employs 50 hands with a weekly pay-roll of $500. He turns out, 
as a specialty of his manufacture, about 300 buggies a year ; also 
does a general repairing business. Value of his annual produc- 
tion, about $30,000. 

GARLAND, HOLMES & CO.'S CARRIAGE MANUFAC- 
TORY, at 50 and 52 North Canal street, was established in 18G2, 
on a capital of $25,000. They employ about 25 hands, with a 
monthly pay-roll of $1,000. The value of their annual produc- 
tion is $30,000. Fine, light carriages and "Concord Buggies" 
they make a specialty of their manufacture. Messrs. Garland & 
Holmes came from Boston (where they were engaged in the same 
line of manufacture) on account of the greater facilities in Chi- 
cago for their business. 

GEORGE H. YONG'S WAGON AND CARRIAGE MAN- 
UFACTORY — W. Wharton, Superintendent — corner of West 
Lake and Green streets — was established in 1867, with a capital 
of $15,000. About 45 hands are employed, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $500. Value of annual production, $40,000. Manufactures all 
kinds of wagons and carriages. 

L. C. MECKEL'S WAGON AND CARRIAGE MANU- 
FACTORY^ — at 109 and 111 East Twelfth street — was estab- 
lished in 1862; present capital invested, $10,000; number of 
employes, 20, with a weekly pay-roll of $300 ; value of annual 



86 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

production, $35,000. The manufacture of express and spring 
wagons is a specialty of this establishment, though buggies are 
also manufactured. 

THE CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY of C. Stoxe, 418 West 
Lake street, was established in 1868 ; capital .invested, $10,000 ; 
number of employes, 15 ; pay-roll, $200 weekly — value of annual 
production, about 825,000. Manufactures principally buggies, 
carriages and pie-wagons ; also does a general repairing and job- 
bing business. 

I^. WELTER & CO.'S WAGON AND CARRIAGE MANU- 
FACTORY — at 30 South Jefferson street — was established in 
1865 on a capital of $10,000. They employ 15 hands, with a 
weekly pay-roll of $150, turning out an annual value of $30,000. 
The manufacture of truck wagons is a specialty of this establish- 
ment, though carriages are also manufactured. 

THE WAGON AND CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY" of 
Jacob Press — at 62 and 64 North Halsted street — was estab- 
lished in 1858 ; capital invested at present, $15,000 ; number of 
employes, 15, with a weekly pay-roll of $200 ; value of annual 
production, $50,000. Manufactures carriages, buggies and wag- 
ons of all descriptions. 

JOHN SCHMITT & CO., in 1872, established a Wagon 
Manufactory, at 555 and 557 Archer avenue, with a capital of 
about $2,000. They employ four hands, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $60, and turn out $10,000 worth of wagons in a year. They 
manufacture heavy and light wagons, and do a general repairing. 

THE TRUCK AND WAGON MANUFACTORY of F. 

Kerzikowsky — at 801 West Lake street — was established in 
1871, on a capital of $5,000. He employs 10 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $150. The value of his annual production is $15,000. 
He manufactures especially heavy trucks, heavy and light wagons, 
and does a general repairing business. 

THE CARRIAGE AND WAGON MANUFACTORY" of 

George Khunen — corner of North Clark and Superior streets 
— was established in 1859; capital invested at present, $20,000; 



MANl'FACTL'KES OF CHICAGO. 87 

number of employes, 15, with a weekly pay-roll of about $150 ; 
value of annual production, $^35,000. The manufacture consists 
principally of buggies, carriages and express wagons. The works 
were burned out on the same site in the great fire, and everything 
destroyed, without any insurance. Nevertheless, building was 
commenced at once, and in December following the manufacture 
of wagons was in full operation. 

J. J. CONNELLY'S WAGON AND CAERIAGE MANU- 
FACTORY was established at 175 West Adams street, in 18T;>, 
with a capital of about -$5,000, and 12 employes, with a weekly 
pay-roll of about $100. The value of annual production is about 
$12,000. Manufactures especially road wagons ; also buggies and 
light carriages, which stand high for excellence and perfection of 
workmanship and material. 

JOHN WOLLER — in rear of 320 Milwaukee avenue — com- 
menced the manufacture of heavy wagons in 1872. He has about 
$2,000 invested, and with three hands turns out about $3,000 
worth of new wagons to order, exclusive of quite a large business, 
in repairing. 

THE WAGON MANUFACTORY of Morris Weyh, at 
213 Eighteenth street, was established in 1868, with a capital of 
$1,000; he employs 5 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $75, and 
turns out $20,000 worth of wagons and buggies annually. 

AUGUST THIELE established a Wagon Factory at the corner 
of Blue Island avenue and Eleventh street in 1857, where he now 
employs 10 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $100; the value of 
his annual production is about $20,000. Manufactures all kinds 
of wagons. 

FRED GERBER'S WAGON AND CARRIAGE MANU- 
FACTORY, 182 Twentieth street, was established in 1870, on a 
capital of $2,500 ; he employs 5 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$75, and turns out $10,000 worth of wagons and carriages an- 
nually. 

MILLER & LEIBT'S WAGON MANUFACTORY — at 

28 Blue Island avenue and 289 South Halsted street — wasestab- 



88 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

lished in 1869 ; capital invested, $^5,000; number of employes, 10, 
with a weekly pay-roll of $150 ; value of annual production, -^15,000. 
This firm make the manufacture of " business wagons " a specialty ; 
also manufacture express and delivery wagons, and do a general 
repairing business. 

THE WAGON MANUFACTORY of Possehl & Bulow, 
at 217 Eighteenth street, was established in 1869, on a capital of 
$3,000 ; they employ 4 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $75, and 
turn out an annual value of $25,000. They manufacture all 
kinds of wagons. 

J. H. CARSON'S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY, at 344 

Wabash avenue, was established in 1872 ; capital invested, $25,000 ; 
number of employes, 6 ; weekly pay-roll, $100 ; value of annual 
production, $30,000. Renewing second-hand carriages is a 
specialty; also manufactures light carriages and buggies. 

G. WETTERLUND established a Carriage Manufactory at 
•141 and 143 West Lake street in 1859; employs 15 hands, with 
a weekly pay-roll of $160, and manufactures carriages and bug- 
gies. 

THE CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY of Fred. Gerber — 
corner of Quincy and Franklin streets — was established in 1868 ; 
capital invested a^t present, $25,000. They employ about 30 
hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $600. The value of their annual 
production is about $50,000. This firm manufacture heavy freigiit 
and express wagons; also carriages and bu-ggies. Their special-ty 
is repairing. They w^ere burned out in the great fire, on Franklin, 
between Randolph and Washington streets, where they started 
temporarily immediately after. They put up their present build- 
ing, which is of brick, and removed their works into it in about 
nine months after the fire. ■ 

P. IIAHN'S WAGON MANUFACTORY — at 264 Chicago 
avenue — was established as long ago as 1855, and did a thriving 
business up to the time of the great fire, when it was entirely 
destroyed, and Mr. Halm's insurance was worthless. The present 
capital is only $2,000, and but five hands are employed, with a 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 89 

weekly pay-roll of $75 ; value of annual production, about $7,000. 
He manufactures heavy and light wagons, and does a general 
repairing business. 



BABY CARRIAGE MANUFACTORIES. 

There are three quite extensive manufactories of this character 
in the city, each doing a large business. Nor is it surprising, when 
it is understood that the wants of the babies are imperative, and 
can not be put off like those of grown-up people. 

NOVELTY MANUFACTURING CO.— Adolph SnoEiaK- 
GER, Superintendent — 495 to 499 North Wells street. The busi- 
ness was established in 1865 by Westerman & Shoeninger, who 
were burued out and totally ruined by the great fire. The present 
Company was organized immediately after the fire — buildings 
erected, and the business running again in November, 1871. 
Capital invested, $25,000 ; num])er of employes, 65, with a 
monthly pay-roll of $3,000 ; value of annual production, $75,000. 
Manufacture baby carriages, perambulators, hobby-horses, sleighs 
and velocipedes ; toy wagons for children, etc. This is one of the 
largest manufactories of the kind in the West. Its goods are sent 
to St. Louis, Cmcinnati and most Western cities. Represented in 
the Exposition by a full line of their goods, in Department B, 
Section 8. 

EXCELSIOR CHILDREN'S CARRIAGE FACTORY— 

H. Wills & Co., Proprietors— 378, 380, 382 Fifth avenue — was 
established m 1871; capital invested, $35,000; number of em- 
ployes, 50, with a weekly pay-roll of $500 ; value of annual 
production, $65,000. Manufacture children's carriages, peram- 
bulators, hobby-horses, boys' and girls' sleighs, toy wagons, etc., 
all of tlie most elegant style and finish. This establishment is 
represented in the great Exposition by a full line of carriages, 
hobby-horses, etc. 

JAMES B. THOMAS' BABY CARRIAGE MANUFAC- 
TORY, at 114 North Peoria street, was established in 1859 — the 
eldest in this branch of manufacture in the city; capital invested, 
$35,000 , employs 40 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $400, and 



90 MAI^^UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

turns out annually about 1^30,000 worth of goods. Manufactures 
all styles of baby carriages, perambulators, hobby-horses, sleighs, 
etc. Supplies several of the leading wholesale dealers in this city. 



SCRAPER MD DITCHER MANUFACTORIES. 

THE CHICAGO SCKAPER AND DITCHER CO. — W. 

T. XiCHOLS, President — office 56 La Salle street — established in 
1871, with a capital stock of $40,000. The Company employs 15 
to 20 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of §;300 to $100; value of 
annual production, 140,000 to $50,000. The Company was organ- 
ized especially for the manufacture of the Chicago Scraper, which 
has the reputation of excelling all other scrapers in use, in effi- 
ciency. 

JOSHUA EDWARDS' GRADER AND DITCHER MAN- 
UFACTORY— J. Schaff, Superintendent — 627 South Hal- 
sted street — was established in 1871; capital invested, 110,000- 
employs 12 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $200, and turns out 
30 machines a year, valued at $25,000. The manufacture of the 
Warrchope Grader and Ditcher is the specialty of the estabhsh- 
ment. 



AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT MANUFACTORIES. 

THE HALL HUSKING GLOVE CO.— 143 and 145 South 
Canal street — Geo. P. Ross, Secretary; H. L. Hall, Superin 
tendent — was established m 1870, with a capital stock of $25,000 , 
the number of employes is 25, and the annual production is 
$30,000 pairs of gloves, valued at $50,000. The weekly pay-roll 
is about $250. The manufacture of Hall's Patent Husking Glove 
is the specialty of the works. 

t^ THE FURST & BRADLEY MANUFACTURING CO.— 

0. FuRST, President; D. Bradley, Treasurer; J.^. BKAirciE-r, 
Secretary — warehouse and office, 57 to G3 Nortli Desplaines street ] 
— is one of the pioneer establishments of the city, having been 
established in 1854. The capital invested is $600,000, a-nd the 
number of employes, 300, with a weekly pay-roll of $3,0^0. 



MANTFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 91 

The annual production of these immense works is 25,000 plows ; 
5,000 cultivators ; 4,000 sulky rakes : 2,000 harrows ; 5,000 railroad 
scrapers; and 2,000 wheelbarrows; the whole being valued at 
$700,000. The manufacture of the " Garden City Clipper Plow '' 
is a specialty. This plow has become immensely popular with 
the farmers throughout the Xorthwest — as far as California and 
Oregon — and as far east as New York and Vermont. This estab- 
lishment is represented in the grand Exposition by some 80 sam- 
ples of its manufactures. 

^ THE CHICAGO PLOW CO. — N. S. Boutojs', President; 
E.-P. Whitehead, Vice President ; E. G. Shujiway, Secretary; 
.jGt-S't-Bouton", Supei'intendent — corner of Archer avenue and 
Wallace street 7^ was established in 1867, with a capital stock of 
$165,000. The Company employ 100 hands, with a monthly pay- 
roll of $4,000, and turn out 12,000 plows annually, valued at 
$225,000. The works were first started in Naperville, 111., and 
were moved into the city in the fall of 1872. The special manu- 
facture of the Company is plows, but they also manufacture a 
large line of other implements used in agriculture. These works 
are represented in the great Inter-State Exposition by a full line 
of the articles manufactured. 

UNION EGG CAERIER CO. — A. H. Bryant, Secretary 
and Manager — was established in 1870, at 143 and 145 South 
Clinton street, with a capital of $20,000 ; employ 15 hands, with 
a weekly pay-roll of about $150 ; turn out 40,000 carriers, valued 
at $35,000 a year. Manufacture exclusively the Patent Egg 
Carrier. The only manufactory of the kind in the city. 

^ 0. H. Mccormick & bros.' reaper works, were 

established in 1846 ; the capital invested is very large, probably 
in the millions ; number of employes, 800 ; monthly pay-roll, 
about $57,000; production at present, 125 finished combined 
reaping and mowing machines per day. The original reaper 
works were located near the mouth of the river, on the North 
Side, where they were totally destroyed in the great fire. The 
present works are situated on the west branch of the south branch 
of the Chicago river, near the intersection of Blue Island and 
Western avenues, where they occupy an enclosed area of 23 acres 



92 MANUFACTUEES OF CHICAGO. 

of ground. The buildings,, five stories high, occupy three sides 
of a square, each side oGU feet long, with the engine room and a 
four-story middle building between the two wings. The floor 
surface of the works would cover an area of six acres. The works 
consist of the wood department, full of machinery, such as 
upright, circular, cross-cut and band saws, planers, boring, 
mortLsing, tenoning, matching, shaping, and smoothing machines; 
the iron department, including punch presses, shears that cut a 
bar of iron 4x1 inch as though it were a sheet of tin plate; the 
blacksmith shop with its trip hammers, bolt-forging machines, 
turning out 3,000 to 4,000 bolts per day each, and the skillful 
blacksmiths themselves making reaper fingers; the foundry, a 
building 255x90 feet, all under one roof, well lighted, including 
two furnaces, each capable of melting 30 tons of pig iron, Avhere 
all the castings that enter into the composition of reapers are 
turned out — fire-proof safes in which all the patterns are kept — 
ovens for baking " cores " for moulding purposes, etc.; the iron 
finishing department, with its iron lathes of all sizes for turning 
and dressing, drills, upright and horizontal, for drilling holes in 
the various iron and steel pieces, iron planers, key seat cutters, 
screw cutters and nut tappers, straightening machines and gear 
cutter ; the sickle shops where the sickles are cut from Sheffield 
sheet steel by ingenious machinery. The patent dry-house, where 
the lumber is seasoned, is a building by itself in the inclosure. 
It is large enough to take in lumber by the car load. Adjoining 
the dry-house is the extensive lumber yard, where pine, white 
ash, hickory, rock elm, maple, oak and white-wood lumber is 
stacked up. All the machinery of this immense establishment 
is driven by one 300 horse power low-pressure engine, the fly- 
wheel of which, alone, weighs over 16 tons. The steam is sup- 
plied by five immense boilers, from the boiler works of 0. Mason. 
The extensive cellar room under the entire building is used for 
tlie storage of bar iron, sheet steel, sheet zinc, copper, brass Avire 
and finished castings. 



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MANUFACTURES OF (JHIUACtO. 93 



BRIDGE AND CAR WORKS. 

' F. E. CANDA & CO., BRIDGE AND CAR WORKS — 

J. W. Savin, General Manager; J. E. Doran, Master Car Builder 
— located corner Blue Island avenue and Robey street — were 
established in 1873 ; capital invested, $350,000 ; number of em- 
ployes, 225; monthly pay-roll, 111,500; have a capacity of pro- 
duction, in value, of about |>3,000,000 annually. This Company 
make a specialty of bridge building ; have constructed bridges for 
the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. ; also the bridges and all the 
equipments of the Cairo & St. Louis Railroad Co. They also 
build passenger and freight cars, street railway cars, turn-tables, 
water stations, frogs, crossings, switch stands, etc. 

THE BRIDGE AND CAR WORKS of Wells, French & 
Co. — 0: P. ScOYlLLE, Superintendent — were established in 1 SQii ; 
employ 300 hands ; monthly pay-roll, $18,000 to $20,000 ; annual 
production, 1,200 freight cars, and 10,000 feet of bridging ; value, 
1)1,250,000. The specialty of the Company is the manufacture of 
railroad cars and the building of bridges. The works are located 
near the corner of Blue Island avenue and West Twenty-second 
street. Office, Hawley Block, corner Dearborn and Madison 
streets. 

THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD WORKS — 

located on South Park avenue, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty- 
sixth streets — H. 0. Wadlie, Superintendent — employ 450 
hands ; monthly pay-roll, $25,300 ; and turn out $1,000,000 worth 
of cars, etc. It is, to all intents and purposes, one of the manu- 
facturing establishments of Chicago. 

THE AMERICAN BRIDGE CO.— A. B. Stone, President; 
W. C. Taylor, Secretary and Treasurer; E. Hemberle, W. G. 
Coolidge, Engineers — works corner Egan and Stewart avenues; 
office, 210 La Salle street, corner Adams — was established in 
1852 ; capital stock, $600,000 ; number of employes, 800 ; monthly 
pay-roll, $50,000 ; value of annual production, $2,000,000. The 
specialty of the Company is the building of bridges, roofs, etc. 
Among many others, they have erected the following prominent 
bridges and roofs — Missouri River bridge at Omaha, Neb.; Mis- 



94 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAC40. 

souri River bridge at Leavenworth, Kan.; Missouri Eiver bridge 

at . This Company is now building a bridge to replace 

the one that fell at Dixon, Illinois, last spring, with such dis- 
astrous results. Build iron, combination, and Howe truss rail- 
road and highway bridges. 



FIRE APPARATUS MANUFACTORIES. 

FIRE APPARATUS MANUFACTORY of GEORGE W. 
HANNIS, 74 and 76 Michigan street— was established in 1854 — 
capital invested, $25,000 — number of employes, 23, with a 
monthly pay-roll of $1,800. The value of his annual production 
is 875,000. Manufactures hose carts, hook and ladder trucks and 
fire apparatus generally. Burned out in the great fire in the same 
location, and had his present buildings erected and was in run- 
ning order in ten days after. Mr. Hannis' establishment is repre- 
sented in the great Exposition by Hose Carts, Hook and Ladder 
Trucks, with their complements of Hooks and Ladders. 

THE BABCOCK MANUFACTURING CO.— Vax H. Hig- 

GiNS, President; Aksoj^" Stager, Vice-President; F. W. Far- 
well, Treasurer; W. W. Burdow, Assistant Secretary; J. 0. 
Davison", Superintendent of Agencies; J. A. Kley, Superin- 
tendent of Factory ; Geo. Mathews, Advertising Agent. The 
counting room, 81 and 83 Washington street — factory, 325 to 
331 S. Desplaines street. Manufacture the Babcock Fire Extin- 
guisher of all styles, sizes and patterns. These machines are fast 
becoming co-extensive with civilization. Already they are sent 
to Moscow, Constantinople, Rio Janeiro, Yokohama, Alaska, 
Chili, Peru, etc. There are general agents in every state of the 
Union. The principle upon which these machines are made is a 
French invention, and Avas first introduced into this country in 
1866, at Boston, but through imperfect mechanical construction 
was not a success until brought to Chicago, where, by the exer- 
tions of some well known Chicago men, among whom were J. V. 
Farwell, Van H. Higgins, Mathew Laflin, Anson Stager, and 
others, the utility of tlie apparatus was proved, and its value can 
best be appreciated by its popularity. It nuiy well be called in 
fact a purely Chicago enterprise. The Company was organized 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 95 

in 1869, with a capital stock of $375,000 — number of employes, 
260, with a monthly pay and salary roll of $12,500 — gross pro- 
duction, in 1872, in value, was — trucks, 115,000; engines, 
1120,000; extinguishers, $400,000; tanks, $25,000; total value of 
annual production, $560,000. From these figures it will be seen 
that this is one of the largest manufacturing establishments of 
the city. The works are represented in the grand Inter-State 
Exposition by 100 Extinguishers, 1 Engine, 1 Truck and 1 set of 
Tanks. 



SPRING BED BOTTOM MANUFACTORIES. 

U-"" WHITTLESEY & PETEES' WOVEN WIRE MATTRESS 
MANUFACTORY — office, 129 La Salle street — was established 
in 1870 ; capital invested, $10,000 ; number of employes, 25 to 30 ; 
weekly pay-roll, $200 to $250 ; annual production, 8,000 to 10,000 
mattresses, valued at $901,000. Manufacture principally Peters' 
Improved Woven Wire Mattress, which they claim to be the best 
in the market ; the fabric being of the best quality — cold-drawn 
spring wire tinned — with frames of seasoned hard maple, secured at 
corners by plates of malleable iron. They make both the ordinary 
style and the adjustable mattress, in which the tension of fabric 
may be changed at will. The factory is located at 23 and 25 
Randolph street. The establishment is represented in the grand 
Exposition by samples of both styles of their manufacture. 

SPRING BED AND COT MANUFACTORY —L. C. Boy- 
INGTOK, Proprietor — 753 to 757 State street — established in 
1862 ; capital invested, 120,000 ; employs 10 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $200 ; annual production, 15,000 spring beds and cots. 
Was burned out in the great fire, near the corner of La Salle and 
Randolph streets. Resumed business in a week after the fire at 
557 State, and subsequently removed to the present quarters. Is 
represented in the Exposition by spring beds and cots of his 
manufacture. 

W. F. HUNTINGTON & CO.'S SPRING BED MANU- 
FACTORY— 272 State street— was established in 1861; capital, 
about $10,000 ; number of employes, 5 ; weekly pay-roll, about 
$100 ; value of production, $15,000 to $20,000. Manufacture 



96 MAiq^UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

the Huntington Patent Spring Beds and Cots; is the oldest 
manufacturer in that line in the city. They were burned out 
in the great fire, at 232 Dearborn street; started the business 
again at 430 State street, in less than two weeks after. 

YEOMAN & GATES' SPRING BED MANUFACTORY 

— 296 and 298 State street — established m 1868 ; capital invested, 
about $5,000; number of employes, 6 ; weekly pay-roll, about 
$100 ; annual production, 14,000 beds, valued at $40,000. They 
manufacture the Yoeman Patent Spring Bed Bottoms, Cots and 
Wire Mattresses. This work has grown to its present dimensions 
froni a small beginning, through the indomitable perseverance 
and energy of Mr. Yoeman. He was burned out in the great fire, 
but started again in three days, at 81 4t} West Lake street. 



PRmimG PRESS MANUFACTORY. 

THE CHICAGO TAYLOR PRINTING PRESS CO.— 
S. P. Rouis^DS, President; E. L. Roukds, Cashier and Secretary; 
office, 175 Monroe street — was established in 1867; capital 
invested, $100,000 ; number of employes, 50 to 100 ; weekly pay- 
roll, average, $500 ; value of annual production, $155,000. Manu- 
facture the celebrated Improved Chicago Taylor Drum Power 
Printing Press ; the Washington Hand Printing Press ; Proof 
Presses, and all kinds of Printing Machinery. These works have 
been a marked success from the day of their establishment, never 
having been able to keep up with their orders. They are supply- 
ing all the principal cities of the Northwest, portions of the 
South, Southwest, the Territories and the Pacific coast. The 
factory is located at 13, 15 and 17 North Jefferson street. 



SILVER SMELTING FURNACES. 

THE SWANSEA SILVER SMELTING AND REFINING 
CO. — Adam Smith, President — was established in 1870; capi- 
tal stock, $600,000; number of employes, about 200; monthly 
pay-roll, $8,000 to $12,000 ; production, gold and silver bullion 
and lead- annual value, $3,000,000. These works — represented 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 97 

by Adam Smith & Sok — are located on Jefferson street, between 
Madison and Washington streets. The ores and crude bullion 
come from Utah, Colorado, Nevada and Montana — the larger 
portion of it from Utah. 

THE BRIGHTON SILVER SMELTING AND REFIN- 
ING CO. — Adam Smith, President — was established in 1872; 
capital stock, $300,000 ; number of employes, about 150 ; monthly 
pay-roll, $4,000 to $10,000 ; value of annual production, $2,000,000. 
Produce gold and silver bullion and lead from the ores and crude 
bullion transported by railway from the mines of Utah, Colorado, 
Nevada and Montana. 

These smelting and refining furnaces have been established 
to meet a want — long felt by the miners of the precious ores in 
our Western Territories — of smelting and refining furnaces, to 
save the transportation of these ores to eastern cities or to Eng- 
land. The works have proved a perfect success, so far. The 
Brighton Works are also represented by Adam Smith & Son. 
7 



98 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



MANUFACTURES IN IRON AND WOOD - SUMMARY. 



Manufactures in iron and wood, of every kind. 
Total capital invested 

" number of employes 

" amount of wages paid weekly 

" amount paid monthly. 

" aggregate wages paid per month 

"" wages paid per year 

" value of production for the year 

Comprising : 



58 
6,112,500 

4,816 

$19,870 

196,100 

288,203 

3,386,436 

7,419,500 







Capital. 


No. 
Employes. 


Monthly 
Wages. 


Annual 
Production. 


Wagon and carriage manuf.. . 
Agricultural implem't " 

Car and bridge works 

Fire apparatus works 

Hoisting apparatus works 

Spring bed works 


37 
7 
4 
2 
3 
5 


$1,242,500 

1,500,000 

1,950,000 

400,000 

110,000 

50,000 


1,173 

1,272 

1,775 

283 

260 

53 


$67,126 
77,468 

104,800 

14,300 

14,000 

2,000 


$2,534,500 

6,285,000 

7,250,000 

635,000 

570,000 

145,000 







Of the whole number of manufactories in iron and wood — 58- 
six were established previous to 1860. 



twenty- 



Manufactures m Metals other than Irok 



BRASS FOUNDRIES. 

NORTHSIDE BRAS^ WORKS -r- Wild & Hills, Proprie- 
^^o-F*; T. S. Wild, Superintendent — 79 Michigan street — estab- 
lished in 1865 ; capital invested, $50,000 ; number of employes,. 
30, with a monthly pay-roll of 12,500 ; value of annual production,, 
$100,000. This firm manufactures all kinds of brass castings 
and fittings, all descriptions of plumbers', brewers', and distillers' 
brass goods, engine trimmings. Babbit metals, spelter and tin- 
ners' solder ; but make a specialty of Brown's Patent Steam and 
Air Whistles, and Seibert's Lubricator, two articles that are fast 
taking the place of all rivals in their particular lines. 

L. WOLFF'S COPPER AND BRASS WORKS — 109 and 

111 West Lake street;^ established in 1855; capital invested, 
about $175,000 ; employs 150 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$1,500; value of annual production, $350,000. Manufacture 
every description of plumbers' goods, copper boilers and bath- 
tubs ; brass work for water, steam and gas ; copperware for hotels 
and confectioners' use. The manufacture of plumbers' supplies 
a specialty; also manufacture alcohol and other stills on the 
latest and most approved principles, and. continuous stills to run 
alcohol direct from the grain. Mr. Wolff's establishment is repre- 
sented at the grand Industrial Exposition by a full line of goods 
of his manufacture. 

EDWARD SMEETH'S COPPER AND BRASS FOUN- 
DRY, 125 West Randolph street, is one of the oldest establish- 
ments of the kind in the city, having been established in 1853 ; 
the capital invested is about $30,000, and he employs 30 hands. 



100 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

turning out annually 175,000 in value; his weekly pay-roll is 
about $400. He makes a specialty of heavy copper work for 
grain and alcohol distillers and for rolling-mills; also heavy 
brass castings, and the manufacture of milk-cans. This estab- 
lishment is represented at the Exposition by a full line of its 
more prominent productions. 

GOSHOEN, FONTAYNE & CO.'S GAS-FIXTURE MAN- 
UFACTOEY — 314 and 316 State street — established February 
1st, 1873; capital invested, 180,000; number of employes, 75; 
weekly pay-roll, 11,125 ; value of annual production, probably 
$100,000. Manufacture chandeliers, fixtures and fittings of all 
descriptions, bronze statuary, etc. This is the only manufactory 
of the kind in the West. The works occupy the entire elegant 
stone front double store (314 and 316 State street), five stories, 
50x90 feet, and the business is in successful operation with the 
most gratifying prospects. They have manufactured all the fix- 
tures for the Inter-State Exposition building. 

WESTERN STAR METAL CO.— Elson T. Wright, Pres- 
ident, 17 South Canal street — established in 1867; capital in- 
vested, 150,000 ; number of employes, 30 ; weekly pay-roll, $350 ; 
value of annual production, $125,000. The manufacture of 
"Star Metal," for railway journal bearings, a specialty. The 
Company furnish the majority of the leading railroads of the 
West and South ; also have large facilities for manufacturing 
brass goods of all descriptions. 

CHICAGO BRASS WORKS— J. Graham, W. Veazey and 
W. Johnson", Proprietors — established in 1872, at 40 South Jef- 
ferson street; capital invested, $4,000; number of employes, 13 ; 
weekly pay-roll, $130 ; value of annual products, $12,000. The 
manufacture of plumbers' brass works, ale and beer cocks is made 
a specialty, an ample market for which is found in the city. 

O. OWENS' BRASS FOUNDRY, at 224 and 226 Washing- 
ton street, was established in 1857 ; capital invested, including 
buildings, $60,000 ; he employs 50 hands, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $600; the value of annual production about $100,000. He 
makes the manufacture of brass goods generally a specialty ; also 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 101 

manufactures steam fittings. He was burned out in the great fire 
in the same location, and has since erected a fine brick building, 
40 by 160 feet, four stories snd basement in height. Mr. Owens' 
establishment is represented in the great Exposition by a full line 
of his manufacture. 

NORTHWESTERN COPPER WORKS — Holmberg & 
Stark, Proprietors, 64 Michigan street — established in 1862; 
capital invested, $3,000 ; number of employes, 10, with a weekly 
pay-roll of ^200 ; value of annual production, $15,000. The 
specialty of this establishment is the manufacture of alcohol 
apparatus, distillery and brewery work. It was destroyed in 
the great fire at 63 and 65 North Wells street, and rebuilt at 
the present location in three weeks after. 

ALEXANDER BARNET'S BRASS FOUNDRY, 87 Frank- 
lin street, was established in 1859, with a capital of about $1,000. 
Three hands are employed, who turn out about $5,000 in value 
annually. This foundry was burned out in the same location in 
the great fire. 

THE UNION BRASS MANUFACTURING CO.— J. Hall 
Dow, President; C. A. Hitchcock, Superintendent — at the cor- 
ner of Ohio and North Franklin streets — established in 1869; 
has a capital stock of $150,000, and employs 100 hands. In reply 
to an inquiry for the desired information, the President politely 
informed us it was none of our business. 

THE CHICAGO R. R. LANTERN MANUFACTURING 
CO., established in 1873, at the corner of Ontario and North 
Franklin streets, has the same capital stock and the same Presi- 
dent ; any further information was refused in the same terms. 

BAGGAGE-CHECK MANUFACTORY of W. W. Wil- 
cox — 148 West VanBuren street — established in 1872; capital 
invested, about $4,000 ; employs 8 hands, mostly boys, to attend 
the machines, with a weekly pay-roll of $75 ; value of annual 
production, $18,000. Manufactures exclusively railroad baggage- 
checks. The only manufactory of the kind in the West. Came 
from Boston to Chicago on account of the greater facilities for 



102 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

manufacture and distribution. His dies are all made in this city. 
Mr. Wilcox is represented in the grand Exposition by a case of 
baggage-checks. 

THE CLIFFORD MAIS^UF AC TURING CO.— P. E.May- 
hew, Proprietor — at 195 West Madison street — established m 
1871 ; employs 20 hands ; weekly pay-roll, $250 ; value of annual 
production, $50,000. Manufactures brass steam fittings as a 
specialty; also does all kinds of brass work, and carries on a 
general brass foundry business. 

E. P. PEACOCK'S DIE-CUTTING ESTABLISHMENT, 

at 143 and 145 S. Clinton street, was founded in 1861, with a 
capital of $10,000, and employs 20 hands, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $250; value of annual production, $25,000. Manufactures 
models, patent articles, cutting dies, press work, etc. 

CROSBY & MESSER'S MACHINE SHOP, corner of Jef- 
ferson and West Lake s-treets, was established in 1870, with a 
capital of $20,000 ; number of employes, 18, with a weekly pay- 
roll of about $200; value of annual production about $35,000. 
Manufacture machinery models, dies, etc. ; also manufacture 
Messer's improved press for printing railroad tickets, pillar 
stamps, canceling stamps, eyelet machines, etc. 

SEWING-MACHINE ATTACHMENTS MANUFAC- 
TORY of N. Baristum — 259 East Randolph street — estabhshed 
in 1870; capital about $3,000; employs 5 hands; weekly pay- 
roll, 100 ; value of annual production, $15,000. Manufactures 
exclusively sewing machine attachments. 



TYPE FOUNDRIES. 

CHICAGO TYPE FOUNDRY — Marder, Luse & Co., 
Proprietors — 139 and 141 Monroe street — was established in 
1845 ; present capital invested, $150,000 ; number of emploj^es, 
120 ; semi-monthly pay-roll, $2,000 ; value of annual production, 
$380,000. Manufacture printing type of various styles and sizes ; 
also, stereoty})es, electrotypes, and printers' materials generally. 



MANUFACTURES OF (^irAr-K). 103 

This is the pioneer type foundry of the city, and has grown to 
its present dimensions from a small beginning, having passed 
through many vicissitudes during its eighteen years' existence. 
It was completely burned out in the great conflagration, but 
started immediately after the fire, on West Washington street, 
where Messrs. Marder, Luse & Co. made themselves famous, and 
endeared themselves to every printer in the city, by their prompt 
action in procuring and furnishing, in the shortest possible time, 
the material with which to start their respective printing offices 
again. They now occupy an immense building, planned and 
erected with especial reference to the accommodation of their 
business. Their patrons are everywhere, throughout the South- 
west, West, and Xorthwest, wherever printing is done. This 
establishment is represented in the grand Exposition by one Pot- 
ter Press and one steam Type Casting Machine. 

THE MECHANICS' TYPE FOUXDRY — Wm. Pigott, 
President; X. R. Lyman, Vice President; Johx Cresswell, 
Secretary — 81 and 83 Jackson street — established in 1872; 
incorporated in 1873 ; capital stock, $50,000 ; number of em- 
ployes, 20 ; semi-monthly pay-roll, -^^600 ; value cf annual pro- 
duction, 860,000. This foundry was established by an association 
of workmen, and is already meeting with a fair promise of suc- 
cess. They receive orders from all parts of the Northwest. 



t^ S. P. ROUNDS, Manufacturer of Printing Presses and Print- 
ers' Materials — 175 East Monroe street ^established the business 
in 1848 ; present capital invested, $100,000 ; number of employes, 
20; weekly pay-roll, about $300; does a business of $200,000 
annually. Mr. Rounds runs as a specialty an extensive electro- 
type foundry; also an extensive dealer in every description of 
printers' materials, and is the sole agent for the celebrated John- 
son Type Foundry of Philadelphia. He has fitted out, complete, 
over five hundred printing offices in the last quarter of a century. 

THE ILLINOIS TYPE FOUNDRY COMPANY— G.H. 

ScHAUPPE, Superintendent — 61 West Lake street — was estab- 
lished in 1872 ; capital invested, ^50,000 ; number of employes, 
^0 ; semi-monthly pay-roll, ^700 ; value of annual production, 



104 MA^q^UFAOTURES OF CHICAGO. 

$25,000. Manufacture various styles and sizes of printing type, 
and deal in printing material generally. 



ELECTROTYPE FOUIS^DRY. 

A. ZEESE & CO., Stereotypers and Electrotypers — 114 East 
Monroe street — established the business in 1861 ; capital invested, 
$10,000 ; number of employes, 15 ; weekly pay-roll, 1250 ; value 
of annual production, 125,000. Mr. Zeese was burned out in the 
great conflagration, at 84 Dearborn street, and was fairly running 
with entirely new machinery three weeks after the fire, at 17 
North Jefferson street. He is the oldest electro typer in Chicago, 
doing the first of that kind of work at 155 Randolph street m 
1856. 



LEAD MANUFACTURES. 

V/- THE GARDEN CITY LEAD PIPE AND SHEET LEAD 
WORKS — N. LissBERGER & Co., Proprietors — corner of Clinton 
and Jackson streets^ were established early in the year 1873; 
capital invested, i>75,000 ; number of employes, 12 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $200 ; annual production, 1,800,000 lbs. lead pipe, valued at 
$5180,000. Manufacture Lissberger's Patent Tin Incased Pipe. 
This pipe — which has already become so deservedly popular, on 
account of its great superiority over the common lead pipe for 
conducting water — is manufactured solely at these Works. As 
its cost is only one cent per lb. above the common pipe, it is des- 
tined to come into general favor and entirely supersede all other 
kinds now in use. A full variety of plumbers' stock and all kinds 
of metal are for sale, also, at the lowest prices in the market. 

THE CHICAGO SHOT TOWER CO.— E. W. Blatchford, 

President; N. Corwitit, V^ice-President ; C. F. Gates, Treas- 
urer— 70 North Clinton street — was established in 1867; capi- 
tal invested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 16 ; weekly pay-roll, 
$225 ; value of annual production, $150,000. Manufacture im- 
proved finished drop and buck shot, balls and bar lead. The 
Works consume 8,000 lbs. of lead daily. Also manufacture lead 
pipe, sheet, bar and pig lead. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 105 



GOLD LEAF. 

GEO. H. REEVES, Manufacturer of Gold Leaf —37 Wash- 
ington street — established the business in 1872; has about 
$2,000 invested ; employs 7 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of 
about $300 ; value of annual production, $12,000. These are the 
only works of the kind in the city ; also takes orders for gold foil 
and silver leaf. 



TELEGRAPH LNSTRUMEXTS. 

THE WESTERN ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING CO.— 
Anson" Stager, President; Elisha Gray, Secretary; E. M. 
Bartok, Superintendent — 220 E. Kmzie street, was established 
in 1872 ; capital stock, $150,000; number of employes, 115 ; weekly 
pay-roll, $1,600 ; value of annual production, $250,000. This is 
the only establishment of the kind in the Northwest. The 
specialty of the Company is the manufacture of telegraph instru- 
ments and supplies. The factory occupies a brick building, 8G 
xl40 feet in size. Previous to the incorporation of the Company 
the business was carried on by Messrs. Gray & Barton. 



JEWELRY MAN UFACTORIES. 

WATCH CASE MANUFACTORY — Ered. Blauer, Pro- 
prietor, 182 State street — was established in 1868; employs 23 
hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $250 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, $-43,000. Manufactures exclusively fine gold and silver 
watch cases. His market is mostly with watch dealers in the 
city. This is the only manufactory of the kind in the city. 
Was burned out at the corner Lake and LaSalle streets; com- 
menced work immediately after the fire in a stable at 168 Wabash 
avenue. 

^ JUERGENS & ANDERSEN, Manufacturers of Jewelry — 
235 Wabash avenue, corner of Jackson street -j— established the 
business in 1854 ; capital invested, $40,000 ; number of employes, 
42; monthly pay-roll, $1,900; value of annual production, 



106 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

$150,000. Manufactures in fine gold and silver jewelry, etc., 
form their specialty. They are the oldest manufacturing jewelers 
in the city, and have established a reputation for excellent work- 
manship and honorable dealing second to none in the Northwest. 
They were burned out i-n the great coniiagration, and commenced 
business again at 44 Eldridge court November 1st after the fire. 

J. STEINMETZ, Jewelry Manufacturer— 182 State street — 
established the business in 1873 ; capital invested, $5,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 12 ; weekly pay-roll, $163 ; value of production, 
$3,500 per month. Manufactures fine jewelry of every descrip- 
tion ; diamond rings a specialty. 

JOSEPH LEIFF, Manufacturer of Jewelry — 87 Washmg- 
ton street — established the business in 1860; capital invested, 
$5,000; number of employes, six; weekly pay-roll, $120; value 
of annual production, $20,000. Manufactures all kinds of jew- 
elry. 



LOCK MAJ[UFACTORIES. 

MAURICE WHITTIXGHAM & CO.'S Lock Manufactory, 

at 84 West Madison street, was established in 1871 ; capital 
invested, $20,000 ; employs 10 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
$150 ; value of annual production, about $40,000. Manufacture 
burglar-proof, bank and safe-deposit locks — detector cabinet, 
book and spring padlocks, night latches, etc. 

J. F. WOLLENSAK, Locksmith — 228 La Salle street— es- 
tablished in 1860 ; capital invested, $14,000 ; number of employes, 
14 ; monthly pay-roll, $680 ; value of annual production, $28,000. 
Manufacture locks, bell trimmings, keys, transom lifters and mis- 
cellaneous hardware. 



GOLD AND SILVER PLATING WORKS. 

CHAS. BER ANGER, Gold and Silver Plater — 182 State 
street — established the business in 1867; capital invested, $3,000 ; 
number of employes, 15 ; weekly pay-roll, $175; value of annual 
production, $18,000. Makes a specialty of re-plating jewelry; 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 107 

also re-plates all kinds of plated ware. Was burned out at 118 
Clark street; started immediately after the fire on West Adams 
street. 

LETCHE & FLOOD, Silver Platers, etc.— 27 West- Ean- 
dolph street — established the business in 1872; capital invested, 
about $2,000; employ 6 hands, with weekly pay-roll of $100; 
value of annual production, about $10,000. Do a general silver- 
plating business ; also manufacture speaking tubes, whistles, iron 
and plated sash bars for store fronts, bank and balcony rail, etc. 

GRAEF & FIELDS, Silver Platers, etc. — 29 West Eandolph 
street — established the business in 18G1 ; capital invested, about 
$3,000; number of employes, 4; weekly pay-roll, about $80 ; value 
of annual production, about $8,000. Do a general silver-plating 
business as a specialty; also manufacture fine gold and silver 
harness mountings, carriage and house platings, etc. 

M. POWERS, Silver Plater and Manufacturer of Carriage and 
Coach Mountings and Trimmings — 52 West Madison street — 
established the business in 1868 ; has a capital invested of $8,000 ; 
employs 10 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $200 ; value of annual 
production, $30,000. Makes a specialty of the manufacture of 
trimmings and mountings for fine carriages. Some of the finest 
work produced in the Northwest is from this establishment. 



METAL SIGN MA:N^UFACTURERS. 

S. D. CHILDS, JR. & CO. Engravers and Manufacturers of 
Metal Signs — 115 Franklin street — established the business in 
1837 ; capital invested, $20,000 ; number of employes, 18 ; monthly 
pay-roll, $1,000 ; value of annual production, $25,000. This is 
another of the pioneer industries of Chicago in her village days. 
Do a general engraving business; die sinking, seal and stencil 
cutting, and manufacturing metal signs and door plates. 

GARRETSON & DE BARRY, Metal Sign Manufacturers — 
240 E. Madison street — established the business in 1871 ; capital 
invested, about $3,000 ; employ 5 hands, with a monthly pay-roll 
of about $250 ; value of annual production, $5,000. Manufacture 



108 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



metal signs and door plates as a specialty ; also do a general 
engraving, die sinking and stencil cutting business. 

W. B. STOOPS, Patent Sign Manufacturer— 173 E. Madison 
street — established the business in 1870; employs 6 hands, with 
a weekly pay-roll of 175, and turns out per year $5,000 worth of 
signs, and patent open work banner signs. 



MANUFACTURES IN METALS OTHER THAN IRON-SUMMARY. 



Manufactures in metals other than iron, of every kind 41 

Total capital invested _ $2,770,000 

" number of employes 1,640 

" amount of wages paid weekly $14,930 

" amount of wages paid monthly . 56,155 

" wages paid per month 121,398 

" wages paid during the year 1,320,926 

" value of production for the year -.-. 8,474,500 

Comprising : 



Brass foundries 

Silver smelting works 

Type and electrotype foundries 

Vault-light manufactories 

Telegraph instrum't manufact'ries 

Gas fixtures manufactories 

Lead works 

Jewelry manufactories 

Silver plating works 

Watch-case manufactory 

Baggage-check manufactory. _ . 
Sewing machine attachm't manuf. 

Locksmith works 

Gold leaf manufactory 

Metal sign manufactories 





Capital. 


No. 
Employes. 


Monthly 
Wages. 


12 


$573,000 


554 


$28,000 


2 


900,000 


350 


22,000 


5 


560,000 


195 


13,683 


2 


220,000 


125 


6,173 


1 


150,000 


115 


6,900 


1 


80,000 


75 


4,875 


2 


125,000 


28 


1,806 


3 


50,000 


60 


1,226 


4 


20,000 


53 


3,387 


1 


74,000 


23 


1,150 


1 


4,000 


8 


400 


1 


3,000 


5 


433 


2 


34,000 


24 


1,330 


1 


2,000 


7 


400 


3 


25,000 


18 


1,550 



Annual 
Production. 



$1,232,000 

5,000,000 

690,000 

385,000 

250,000 

100,000 

330,000 

212,000 

82,000 

45,000 

18,000 

15,000 

68,000 

12,000 

35,000 



Of the whole number — 41 — six were established previous to 1860. 



Manufactures in XjEathek. 



BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORIES. 

The Boot and Shoe Manufacture is fast becoming prominent 
among the industrial interests of the city. It is but a few 
years since our wholesale dealers depended upon the New England 
manufacturers for their entire supply of goods. Now most of 
them employ large forces of workmen, and manufacture, here in 
our midst, the goods for their immense jobbing trade. 

DOGGETT, BASSETT & HILL'S BOOT AND SHOE 
MANUFACTORY — 29 and 31 Lake street — was established in 
1846, and is the pioneer establishment in this line ; present capi- 
tal invested, 1200,000 ; number of employes, 100 ; weekly pay-roll, 
$2,000 ; annual production, 4,000 cases boots and shoes, valued at 
$250,000. The firm was originally Ward & Doggett, who com- 
menced wholesaling in 1846, when their sales for the first twelve 
months amounted to about 19,000. Since that time their sales have 
steadily increased, until now they are nearly one and a half mil- 
lions of dollars annually, and this year will reach fully that figure. 
Their custom work is well known as the best manufactured in 
Chicago. 

^ C. M. HENDERSON & CO. — Manufacturers of Boots and 
Shoes — corner Madison and Franklin streets -L established the 
business in 1851 ; present capital invested, $250,000 ; number of 
employes, 150; monthly pay-roll, $3,000; annual production, 
125,000 pairs, valued at $350,000. The firm of C. M. Henderson 
& Co. dealt in eastern goods exclusively until about twelve years 
ago, when they began to manufacture. They aimed from the 
first to make none but the best class of goods, and the result is 



110 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

the reputation of their work is imexcelled, and the demand is 
continually increasing. The manufacturing department is but a 
portion of their business, as their aggregate sales amount to about 
$2,000,000 per annum. They are represented in the Exposition, 
by a full line of their boots and shoes. 

THE BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORY of M. Selz 
& Co. — 219 and 221 East Madison street — H. J. Sawyer, Super- 
intendent — was established in 1871, with a capital of $250,000; 
number of employes, 350; monthly pay-roll, $10,000; annual 
production, 16,000 cases — value, $1,000,000. Manufacture hand- 
made Pegged Boots and Shoes, which are claimed to be the best 
in the market. They are the largest manufacturers in the North- 
west. Are represented in the Exposition by 100 cases of boots of 
their manufacture. 

k' T. B.WEBER & CO.'S BOOT AND SHOE MANUFAC- 
TORY — 127 and 129 Market street^ — was established in 1864; 
capital invested, $150,000 ; number of employes, 75 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $1,000; annual production, 3,000 cases; value, $150,000. 
The firm was established as early as 1850, but did not commence 
to manufacture until 1864. In addition to their own manufac- 
ture, they keep a well selected stock of eastern made goods, and 
their entire sales amount to $750,000 per annum. Manufacture 
only first quality of goods, and their demand is steadily increasing. 

l^ PRATT & HALL'S BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTO- 
RY — 137 to 143 Market street, and 255 and 257 Monroe street — 
was established in 1869 ; employ 70 hands, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $1,000 ; annual production, 45,000 pairs of boots and shoes ; 
value, $200,000. This establishment was founded by Mr. Joseph 
Pratt. They have recently enlarged the factory, and added eastern 
made goods to their stock. They make all kinds of goods, and 
warrant all their work; do an exclusive wholesale and jobbing 
business of their own and eastern made goods, at low figures. 
They are represented in the Exposition by a full line of their 
goods. 

CROFOOT, STEELE & CO.— Manufacturers of Shoes — 
established the business in 1868 ; capital invested, $50,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 75 ; weekly pay-roll, $1,000 ; annual production, 



MANtrFACTUKES OF CHICAGO. Ill 

55,000 pairs of shoes ; value, $125,000. Manufacture shoes as a 
specialty. Are represented in the Exposition by a full line of 
their manufacture. 

^" M. D. WELLS & CO., Manufacturers of Boots and Shoes, S. 

E. corner of Madison and Market streets — established the busi- 
ness in 1852. They employ 175 hands ; monthly pay-roll, $10,000 ; 
value of annual production, $350,000. This firm is really one of 
the oldest boot and shoe concerns now in the city, having been 
established in 1848, as Wadsworth & Wells, subsequently the 
firm became F. C. & M. D. Wells, and in 18G5, M. D. Wells & Co., 
the present company. They are now among the heaviest manu- 
facturers in the city. They manufacture calf, kip and stoga 
boots of every description, for men, youths and boys. Their 
manufacture has a high reputation for excellence, both of stock 
and workmanship. They are represented in the Exposition by a 
full line of their manufacture. 

v^ THE BOOT AJSTD SHOE MAXUFACTOEY of Phelps, 
Dodge k Palmer — 48 and 50 Wabash avenue — was established 
in 1863 ; emj^loy 90 men, with a weekly pay-roll of $1,600 ; an- 
nual production, 72,000 pairs; value, $250,000. The firm was 
originally Phelps & Dodge, and commenced on a small scale ; 
but this year their sales will reach $1,000,000. They claim to , 
have made the best boot in the West for the past seven years — 
their boots being all made on " Macomber's Glove-Fitting Last," 
the best in the world. 

"^ GREENSFELDER, ROSENTHAL & CO., Manufacturers 
of Boots and Shoes, 34 and 36 Lake street, established the busi- 
ness in 1854; present capital invested, $250,000; number of 
employes, 60 ; weekly pay-roll, $1,200 ; annual production, 3,500 
cases ; value, $150,000. The firm commenced here in 1854 (and 
is among the oldest in the city) as retailers, and by energy, 
perseverance and a strict integrity and honorable dealing, worked 
their way up to their present position, and their sales this year 
will reach upwards of $1,000,000. 

^ C.H. FARGO & CO., Manufacturers of Boots and Shoes- 
comer of Madison and Market streets — established in 1856; 
present capital invested, $100,000; number of employes, 90; 



112 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

weekly pay-roll, about 11,600 ; annual production, 40,000 pairs ; 
value, $175,000. Messrs. Faego & Co. commenced jobbing in 
1856, and had their manufacturing business fully established in 
1860 — making them the oldest continuous wholesale manufac- 
turers in the city. They have done much to establish the repu- 
tation of Chicago for making the best goods in the market. The 
above capital only shows the amount used in the factory. They 
do a large wholesale business in all grades of eastern goods as well 
as in their own work. 

JOHN MULLIN'S BOOT MANUFACTOEY, 67 Kinzie 
street, was established in 1852 ; capital invested, 115,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 25 ; weekly pay-roll, $100 ; annual production, 
864 cases of boots ; value, 150,000. This is the oldest wholesale 
boot and shoe manufactory in the Northwest. 

' J. A. C. CUKTIS' SHOE MANUFACTOEY — 24 State 
street — was established in 1865 ; present capital, $100,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 50 ; monthly pay-roll, $3,000 ; value of annual 
production, $150,000. Mr. Curtis, while yet quite a young man, 
started the business of manufacturing shoes with a small capital. 
Through a persistent energy and perseverance, and a strict atten- 
tion to business, and thoroughly honorable dealing, he is now at 
the head of one of the finest exclusively ladies shoe manufacturing 
establishnfltnts in the city. 

KING & ALLEN, Manufacturers of Ladies and Children's 

Shoes — 77 LaSalle street — established the business in 1873; 
capital invested, $5,000 ; number of employes, 15 ; weekly pay-roll, 
$250 ; value of annual production, $50,000. Manufacture exclu- 
sively ladies', misses' and children's shoes. 

GEO. L. CONGDON'S BOOT AND SHOE MANUFAC- 
TOEY — 48 Milwaukee avenue — established in 1865; capital 
invested, $10,000 ; number of employes, 25 ; weekly pay-roll, $500 ; 
value of annual production, $50,000. Manufactures a general 
line of boots and shoes for the jobbing trade. 

J. F. GEEISEMAN, Manufacturer of Boots and Shoes — 28 
W. Madison street — established the business in 1864; capital 
invested, $10,000 ; number of employes, 15 ; weekly pay-roll, $250 ; 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 113 

Talue of annual production, $45,000. Manufactures a fine line 
of goods for gentlemen, ladies, misses and children's wear. The 
establishment stands well among the manufacturing houses of 
the city. 

QUIRK & HALL'S BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORY 
— 264 W. Twelfth street — established in 1869; capital invested, 
$5,000 ; number of employes, 20 ; weekly pay-roll, $400 ; value of 
annual production, $50,000. Manufacture exclusively ladies', 
misses' and children's tine shoes. Among the largest manufac- 
turers in this exclusive line in the city. 

F. McPURLIN'S BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORY— 

657 North Halsted street — established in 1871; capital invested, 
$5,000 ; employs 10 hands ; pay-roll, about $200 per week ; value of 
annual production, $20,000. Manufactures a full line of fine 
wear for gents, ladies and misses, in French kid, patent leather 
and morocco. 



HARNESS MANUFACTORIES. 

The manufacture of Harness has not yet assumed the extent 
and importance that distinguishes a number of other branches of 
manufacture. There are a number of manufactories, but few of 
them of very great extent. 

THE HARNESS MANUFACTORY of Short & Bray- 
Tox — E.E.Hardy, Superintendent — 181 Madison street — was 
established in 1871; capital invested, $25,000; number of em- 
ployes, 50 ; monthly pay-roll, $1,000 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, $100,000. Manufacture as a specialty fine harness and 
collars. 

C. W. EASTON, Harness Manufacturer— 218 West Randolph 
street — established the business in 1871 ; capital invested, $6,000; 
number of employes, 15; weekly pay-roll, $300; value of annual 
production, $20,000. Manufactures all kinds of heavy and light 
harness. 

NORTHWESTERN HARNESS MANUFACTORY— W. J. 

Ralph, Superintendent — 213 State street — established by W. 

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114 MANUFACTUKES OF CHICAGO. 

J. Kalph in 1863, incorporated in 1870; employs 20 hands; 
weekly pay-roll, 1300; value of annual production, $40,000. 
Manufactures principally tine coach and carriage harness and 
single harness. The establishment was burned out in the great 
fire at 194 State street, and commenced running again at the 
present location in November following. 

THE HARNESS MANUFACTORY of Boynton & Noyes, 

329 State street, was established in 1869 ; capital invested, $8,000 ; 
number of employes, 15 ; weekly pay-roll, $200 ; value of annual 
production, $25,000. Manufacture as a specialty fine light har- 
ness. Also dealers in whips and horse clothing. Were burned 
out at 91 East Randolph street in the great fire; commenced 
business again, at their present location, in a little over a 
month after. 

IRA H. TUBES, Harness Manufacturer, 59 West Madison 
street, established the business in 1871 ; capital invested, $5,000 : 
number of employes, 7; weekly pay-roll, about $100, value of 
annual production, $20,000. Manufacture specially light carriage 
harness, double and single, from plain to the finest heavily 
mounted harness. Will shortly enlarge the business, and do an 
exclusive jobbing trade. 

THE HARNESS MANUFACTORY of T. G. Cusack, 201 
West Madison street, was estahlished m 1873 ; capital invested, 
$3,000 ; number of employes, 8 ; pay-roll, about $120 ; value of 
annual production, about $10,000. Manufactures a full line of 
fine harness of every description, and keeps on hand a complete 
line of summer and winter horse clothing, whips, brushes, boots, 
lap robes, chamois sponges, oils, soaps, scrapers, etc., and every 
outfit for road track, park or stable. 

A. DIPPE, Harness Manufacturer — 75 West Lake street — 
established the business in 1864; capital, $2,000; employs 4 
hands ; pay-roll, about $100 ; value of production per year, 
$5,000. Manufactures all kinds of light and heavy harness. 

PETER SCHUSTER'S SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP, 

at 250 North Clark street, was established in 1867; capital in- 
vested, $3,000; employs 5 to 7 hands; weekly pay-roll, about 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 115 

1100 ; value of annual production, $7,000. Manufactures heavy 
and light double and single harness. Was burned out in the 
ffreat lire, and started soon after on Milwaukee avenue. Returned 
to the present location last spring. 

DOUGLAS & aREULIOH, Harness Manufacturers — 822 
State street — established the business in 1867 ; have about $5,000 
invested, and employ 6 hands; weekly pay-roll, about $100; 
value of annual production, $7,000. Manufacture all kinds of 
harness, though they make a specialty of light carriage harness. 

JOHISr BYRNE'S SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP — 

250 Randolph street — was established in 1859; capitni invested, 
about $3,000; number of employes, 5; weekly pay-roll, $100; 
value of annual production, about $8,000. Manufactures heavy 
and light double and single harness. 



TRUNK MANUFACTORIES. 

^ THE TRUNK MANUFACTORY of Vogler & Geudt- 
KER — salesroom, 156 State street — was established in 1863; 
capital invested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 60 ; "weekly pay- 
roll, $800 ; value of annual production, $120,000. Manufacture 
every variety and style of trunks, traveling-bags, valises, satchels, 
etc. Burned out in the great fire at 10 Lake street and at 197 
to 203 North Wells street — the location of the factory ; started 
again four weeks after the fire at No. 203 Michigan avenue. The 
factory was rebuilt on the old site on North Wells street. Are 
represented m the grand Exposition by a full line of trunks and 
traveling-bags. 

GEO. H. WALKER'S TRUNK MANUFACTORY, 486 

State street, was established in 1859 ; capital invested, $10,000 ; 
number of employes, 20; weekly pay-roll, $175; value of annual 
production, $75,000. Manufactures all kinds of trunks, valises, 
traveling- bags, etc. 

THE TRUNK MANUFACTORY of Riley & Brakdi- 
MOURE was established in 1862 ; capital invested, $25,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 25 ; weekly pay-roll, $350 ; value of annual 



116 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

production, $75,000. Manufacture all styles of traveling trunks, 
valises, traveling-bags, satchels, shawl straps, shoulder and bag- 
gage straps, etc. Were burned out in the great fire at the corner 
of Wabash avenue and Washington street. Salesrooms, 242 East 
Madison street ; factory at 49 and 51 North Jefferson street. 

P. BECKER & OO.'S TEUNK MANUFACTOEY, at 

295^ and 297 South Clark street, was established in 1857 ; has 
$40,000 invested, and employs 30 hands, with a weekly pay- 
roll of about $400 ; value of annual production, $50,000. Manu- 
factures the " Saratoga," and all styles of trunks and traveling- 
bags. The firm were burned out in the great fire. 

CHAS. T. WILT'S TEUNK MANUFACTOEY — 144 

State street — was established in 1862; capital invested, $7,000; 
employs 11 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $160 : value of annual 
production, $36,000. Manufactures all kinds of trunks known 
to the trade. Sells largely to outside dealers. He was burned 
out in the great fire at the corner of Lake and State streets ; and 
also at 224 and 226 N. Clark street. Started in about two weeks 
after the fire at 385 Wabash avenue. Factory is located 365 Day- 
ton street, on the North Side. 

THE TEUNK MANUFACTOEY of Paul Sutcliff, 40 
West Madison street, was established in 1863, with a capital of 
about $10,000; employs 10 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
about $150; value of annual production, $30,000. Manufactures 
all styles of traveling trunks, valises, etc. ; also dealers m trunks, 
pocket-books, etc. 

C. A. TAYLOE, TEUNK MANUFACTOEY — 130 West 
Madison street — was established in 1859 ; capital, $6,000; em- 
ploys 9 hands; weekly pay-roll $137; value of annual produc- 
tion, $30,000. Manufactures the patent NeAvport trunk as a 
specialty, of which he is the sole manufacturer ; also, a full line 
of traveling trunks, satchels, valises, etc. 

E. SEMPLE'S TEUNK MANUFACTOEY — salesroom, 

175 State street. Potter Palmer's hotel — was established in 1858; 
capital invested, $3,000 ; employs 7 hands, with a weekly pay-roll 
of $100; value of annual production, $10,000. Manufactures 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 117 

every description of trunks, traveling bags, satchels, valiseS; etc. 
Was burned out on Clark street in the great fire, and started 
again in a few days on W. Madison street — is the oldest trunk 
manufacturer in the city. 

CEEGO & CO.'S TRUNK MANUFACTOEY — 70 Randolph^ 
street and 892 State street — was established in 1863; capital 
invested, $10,000; number of employes, 12; weekly pay-roll, 
$150; value of annual production, about 115,000. Manufacture 
a full line of trunks, Saratogas, and traveling conveniences oi 
every description. Was burned out in the great fire — started 
again in one week, at 892 State street. 

MESSRS. KOPSELL & WHITELY — 114 East Madison 
street — established their Trunk Manufacture in 1857; have a 
capital invested of $20,000 ; employ 30 hands ; weekly pay-roll, 
about $400 ; annual production, 1,500 doz. trunks, etc.; value, 
$75,000. Manufacture trunks, valises, traveling bags, etc. Were 
burned out in the great fire, and started again soon after. 



BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORIES. 

^ CULVER, PAGE, HOYNE & CO., Blank Book Manufac- 
turers — 118 and 120 Monroe street — established the business in 
1855 ; capital invested at present, $80,000 ; number of employes, 
100 ; weekly pay-roll, $1,400 ; value of annual production, $150,000. 
M. A. HoYNE is Superintendent of the blank book manufactory, 
and C. W. McOluer of the job printing office. 

This business, as originally established by Wm. Ross in 1843, 
was the first blank book manufactory m Chicago. After several 
changes in proprietorship, the business came into possession of 
Culver, Page, Hoyne & Co. in 1855. It was then only a 
comparatively small book bindery, but the business was rapidly 
extended until it embraced a large wholesale and retail paper and 
stationery business, and a large blank book manufactory and 
printing office. The necessities of the business, in 1870, com- 
pelled the erection by the firm of a building 45 by 190 feet, five 
stories and basement, at 118 and 120 Monroe street. This was a 
very substantial and elegant structure, and the business was 



118 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

removed thereto March Isfc, 1871. This building was destroyed 
in the great conflagration, and rebuilt m July, 1872. The man- 
ufacturing department embraces a large blank book manufactory, 
filled with all modern appliances, and a printing office, running 
21 presses and doing all varieties of printing. The products of 
'the bindery and printing office are sent to all parts of the North- 
west and South. The house has always made a specialty of 
supplies to county and other public offices. In this branch of 
their business their relations extend to every county m several 
states. Many specialties for the use of county officers have been 
invented or are controlled by them. They also do a large busi- 
ness in bank, railroad, insurance and general commercial work. 
The mercantile department embraces a large variety of stock of 
general stationery, papers, bookbinders' stock, machinery, etc. 
The establishment is represented m the grand Exposition by a 
national paging machine, Pettibone's Portfolio, Walkon's Ab- 
stracts, Martin's Tax Calculator, copyist's assistant, stationery 
and blank books. 

J. M. W. JONES, Blank Book Manufacturer — 104 and 106 
Madison street — established the business in 1857 ; present capital 
invested, $250,000 ; number of employes, 100 ; weekly pay-roll, 
$1,000 ; value of annual production, including entire business, 
$400,000. Manufactures blank books of all descriptions, and 
also does an immense business in the general stationery line. 
Mr. Jones, in 1857, bought out a blank book and stationery 
business that was established as early as 1835, by Stephen Gale ; 
the establishment is, therefore, the oldest in the city by several 
years. Under his enterprising management the business has 
grown to be one of the largest in the city. He was burned out 
in the great fire at 108 and 110 East Randolph street; immedi- 
ately commenced business at 68 S. Canal street, with a branch at 
507 Wabash avenue, where he remained until his present spacious 
and elegant quarters were ready. 

DEAN BROS. & HOFFMAN, Manufacturers of Blank 
Books — 191 and 193 S. Clark street — established the business 
in 1856 ; capital invested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 25 ; 
weekly pay-roll, $300; value of annual production, $50,000. 
Manufacture all kinds of blank books ; make bank work a spe- 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 119 

cialty. Burned out on LaSalle street in the great fire, and re- 
opened on the 26th of October on Jefferson street. Took posses- 
sion of the present ample and commodious quarters on the 1st of 
May, 1873. 

^ CAMERON, AMBERG & CO., Blank Book Manufacturers — 
84 Lake street — ^^established the business in 1870; employ 50 
hands, with a monthly pay-roll of $3,000; value of annual pro- 
duction, 1100,000. Manufacture, as a specialty, Amberg's Patent 
Holder, File and Binder, and Indexes ; also blank books of every 
description. The firm were burned out in the great fire, but 
with the characteristic energy and pluck that has become 
proverbial, they were running again in a few days on W. Randolph 
street near the bridge. They are a young and prosperous firm, 
true representatives of Chicago business. 



LEATHER BELT MANUFACTORY. 

i/^ MUNSON & CO., Manufacturers of Leather Belting — 14 and 
16 West Randolph street — established the business in 1863; 
capital invested, $100,000 ; number of employes, 40 ; monthly pay- 
roll, about $2,000 ; value of annual production, $175,000. Manu- 
facture every description of standard leather belting. The only 
manufactory of the kind in the city. The belts manufactured by 
this firm are used throughout the country west of the Alleghenies, 
their excellence and durability giving them a wide popularity. 
Messrs. Munson & Co., were burned out in the great fire, on 
Lake street, but started soon after in their present quarters, on a 
larger scale than before. 



WHIP MANUFACTORY. 

THE WHIP MANUFACTORY of Warrej^ Hall & Co.— 
Warren Hall, Superintendent — 193 S. Desplaines street — was 
established in 1870 ; capital invested, $2,000 ; number of employes, 
15 ; monthly pay-roll, about 1600 ; value of annual production, 
$10,000. Manufacture whips, whip stocks, and lashes. The 
only manufactory of the kind in the city. 



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MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



TRUSS MANUFACTORY. 

OTTO KALTERICH, Manufacturer of every description of 
Trusses — 112 S. Dearborn street — established the business in 
1873 ; capi-tal invested, $3,000 ; employs three hands, with a 
weekly pay-roll of $100 ; value of annual production, $15,000. 



MANUFACTURES IN LEATHER, ETC-SUMMARY. 



Manufactures in leather^ etc., of every kind. 

Total capital invested 

" number of employes 

" amount of wages paid weekly. 

" amount paid monthly. 

" aggregate wages paid per montli 

" wages paid per year 

" value of production for the year 

Comprising : 



44 

$2,570,500 

1,979 

6,997 

6,600 

36,920 

443,040 

4,312,000 







Capital. 


No. 
Employes. 


Monthly 
Wages. 

$59,730 


Annual 
Production. 


Boot and shoe manufactories. 


17 


11,895,000 


1,304 


$2,665,000 


Saddle and harness " 


10 


59,500 


127 


7,608 


231,000 


Trunk " 


10 


181,000 


214 


11,356 


516,000 


Blank Book " 


4 


330,000 


275 


9,300 


700,000 


Leather Belt " 


1 


100,000 


40 


2,000 


175,000 


Truss " 


1 


3,000 


3 


425 


15,000 


Whips " 


1 


2,000 


15 


600 


10,000 



Of the whole number of manufactures in leather, etc.- 
were established previous to 1860. 



•44 — fourteen 



Breweries and Distilleries. 



BREWERIES. 



THE DOWNER & BEMIS BREWmG CO. — established 
in 1861: incorporated in 1867; capital invested, 1^800,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 70; monthly pay-roll, $4,000: annual produc- 
tion, 65,000 barrels of beer, valued at $650,000. The Company 
manufacture only lager beer. This brewery is one of the most 
extensive and best arranged in the city. The buildings are of 
brick — the brewery proper 100x180 feet in size, four stories high. 
Another building, occupied as a malt house, is 60x180, the Com- 
pany making its own malt and doing its own cooperage. About 
600 bales of hops, of 200 pounds each — 120,000 pounds — are 
consumed annually. The officers of the Company are: Albert 
Crosby, President; John H. McAvoy, Secretary and Treasurer ; 
H. V. Bemis, General Superintendent. Located on South Park 
avenue, between Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth streets. 

BUSCH & BRANDOS BREWERY — M. Brakd, Superin- 
tendent — 29 and 31 Cedar street — established in 1849 ; present 
capital, $300,000 ; number of employes, 30 : weekly pay-roll, 
1400; annual production, 30,000 barrels of beer, valued at 
$300,000. Manufacture only lager beer. Burned down in the 
great tire of October 9, 1871 ; began to rebuild October 11, and 
made the first beer in the new brewery January 9, just three 
months after the fire. The brewery building is of brick, 110x160 
feet, three stories high. By a great many the Busch & Brand 
lager is considered the very best drawn. 

THE EAGLE BREWERY— Bartholom^ & Leicht, Pro- 
prietors, corner Sedgwick and Sophia streets, is a new establish- 
ment, having been started in 1872 ; the capital invested is 
$200,000 ; number of employes, 20; weekly pay-roll, $300 ; annual 



122 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

production, 30,000 barrels of beer, valued at $300,000. Only 
lager beer is brewed. The first beer was brewed in November, 
1872. The brewery is very perfect in all its arrangements; in 
this respect it is unsurpassed in this city. The building is of 
brick, three stories high and about 150x150, comprising tho 
brewery proper, malt house, etc. 60,000 pounds of hops ai'e con- 
sumed annually. 

SCHMIDT & GLADE'S BREWERY — at 9 to 35 Grant 
place — was established m 1860, by Alderman K. G. Schmidt; 
present capital invested, 1200,000; number of employes, 50 to 
60; monthly pay-roll, $3,000 to $4,000; annual production, 
25,000 barrels of beer, valued at $250,000. Manufactures lagei' 
beer exclusively. This brewery was destroyed in the great fire of 
October 9th, 1871. The work of rebuilding was commenced at 
once, and by the 24:th of January following the present immense 
brick structure was completed and the first beer brewed. Tlie 
brewery is now one of the most complete in all its appointments. 

THE SEIPP & LEHMAN BREWERY— Conrad Seipp 
(successor to Seipp & Lehman), Proprietor — corner Johnson 
avenue and Twenty-seventh street; was established in 1856; 
capital invested, $1,000,000; number of employes, 80; weekly 
pay-roll, $1,500; annual production, 104,000 barrels; value, 
$1,040,000. This is one of the oldest as well as the most exten- 
sive brewery in the city, and among beer drinkers, the Seipp & 
Lehman beer stands the highest. Mr. Lehman, who did much 
to give this brewery its high reputation, was killed something 
over a year ago by being thrown from his carriage, since which 
this extensive establishment has been under the sole charge of 
Mr. Conrad Seipp. 

J. L. HOERBER, JR.'S BREWERY — at 220 West Twelfth 
street — was established in 1859; capital invested, $10,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 5 ; monthly pay-roll, $200 ; annual production, 
2,500 barrels of lager beer, valued at $25,000. Brews lager 
exclusively. 

CHICAGO UNION BREWING CO. — P. O'Neil, Presi- 
dent — Twenty-seventh street and Johnson avenue — was estab- 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 123 

lished in 1869; capital invested, $125,000; number of employes, 
18 ; annual production, 15,000 barrels, valued at 1120,000. Manu- 
fecture ales exclusively. 

DOYLE & COMPANY'S BREWERY — 423 North State 
gti'eet — was established in 1863; capital invested, $50,000; num- 
ber of employes, 10 ; weekly pay-roll, $150 ; annual production, 
8,000 barrels ; valued at $80,000. Manufacture ales and porter 
exclusively. Burned down in the great fire, in the same place. 
Started in Joliet one week after the fire. Erected the present 
building, and commenced the business again in about five months 
after the fire. 

FORTUNE BROS.^ BREWERY — at 138 to 144 West Van 
Buren street — was established in 1866 ; capital invested, $75,000 ; 
number of employes, 14; monthly pay-roll, $800; annual pro- 
duction, 9,000 barrels of ale , valued at $75,000. Manufacture 
only ales and porter. Have two buildings, one of brick, 45x60 ; 
the other, frame, 35x120 ; each of three stories. Their facilities 
are first class — vaults extensive and convenient. 

JOS. JERUSALEM'S BREWERY— 307 Rush street — was 
established in 1868, with a capital of about $5,000 ; employs 6 
hands ; weekly pay-roll, about $100 ; value of annual production, 
about $10,000. Manufactures and bottles, exclusively, "Weiss 
beer." Was burned out in the great fire; rebuilt and com- 
menced the business again at once. 



DISTILLERIES. 

The manufacture of spirits, high wines and alcohol, is not as 
largely developed in this city as that of several other branches. 
What distilleries we have do a large business, and consume a large 
quantity of corn, rye, etc., and so far help to consume the product 
of the farmers. 

DICKINSON, LEACH & CO. established their distillery in 
1869, at Clybourne-place bridge, on the North Branch ; capital 
invested, $200,000; number of employes, 50; monthly pay-roll, 
$3,000 ; production, 6,000 gallons of spirits per day, valued at 



124 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

about 16,000. They use about 1,500 bushels of grain per day, or 
469,500 a year. This firm also pays a government tax of about 
$1,300,000 per year. '' Uncle Sam '' certainly ought to encourage 
such a manufactory as that. They manufacture alcohol, cologne, 
spirits, whiskies and gin. Office at 25 South Canal street. 

THE NORTHWESTEEN DISTILLING COMPANY — 
Edward E. Lawrei^^ce, President; S. M. Nickersok, Vice- 
President; B. L. Sawyer, Secretary and Treasurer — was estab- 
lished in 1866; capital invested, $300,000; number of employes, 
100; monthly pay-roll, $5,000; value of annual production, 
$2,000,000. The Company manufacture 2,000,000 gallons of 
spirits (only about half the capacity of the works), and turn out 
1,600 head of fat cattle per annum. The main works of the 
Company, including grain distillery, grain warehouses, malt 
house, cooper shops and cattle sheds, cover about five acres of 
ground, situated on Clybourne avenue. Office and rectifying 
establishment, 407 to 411 Eifth avenue. 

THE "G. G. RUSSELL DISTILLERY ''— G. G. Russell, 
Proprietor — 278 Third avenue — was established in 1867 ; capi- 
tal invested, $30,000; number of employes, 11; weekly pay-roll, 
$200 ; value of annual production, $600,000. Manufactures prin- 
cipally highvnnes. Uses 500 bushels of corn per day. 

HENRY H. SHUFELDT & CO.'S DISTILLERY was 

established in 1857 — one of the pioneer establishments of its 
class; capital invested, $200,000; number of employes, 40; 
monthly pay-roll, $3,300 ; value of annual production, $1,250,000. 
Corn is principally used in the manufacture of alcohol and spirits 
for the use of chemists, manufacturers and liquors. One half of 
the product of this distillery is used in the United States, the 
other half is exported to the various ports of the Mediterranean 
Sea. About 400,000 bushels of grain are consumed annually. 
The works are located on the North Branch, near Chicago avenue ; 
office, corner of Adams street and Fifth avenue. 

S. MYERS & CO.'S DISTILLERY— 268 and 270 East 
Madison street — was established in 1847; the oldest distillery in 
the city ; capital invested, $90,000 ; number of employes, 10 ; 



MAN"UFACTUEES OF CHICAGO. 125 

monthly pay-roll, $700 ; value of annual production, 8400,000. 
Manufacture alcohol, spirits, rye, malt and Bourbon whiskies. 

GEO. MILLER'S DISTILLERY— Lake Shore and Twenty- 
seventh street — was established in 1867; capital invested, $75,000. 
number of employes, 12 ; monthly pay-roll, $700 ; annual produc- 
tion, 10,000 barrels, valued at $650,000. Mr. Miller is the suc- 
cessor of the old South Side Distilling Company. Manufactures 
alcohol, spirits and highwines, and uses about 13,000 bushels of 
grain per month — 156,000 bushels annually. 

THE CHICAGO ALCOHOL WORKS — H.J. Pahlmax, 

President — established in 1869; capital invested, $90,000; num- 
ber of employes, 14 ; monthly pay-roll, $840 ; produce 3,600 gal- 
lons (valued at $3,600) daily, or $1,026,800 per year. Manufac- 
ture alcohol, cologne and neutral spirits, and consume 900 bushels 
of grain daily, or 281,700 bushels annually. Works corner of 
Kinzie and Sycamore streets; office, room 28, ^o. 164 Washing- 
ton street. 



MALT HOUSES. 

CHAS. POPE'S MALT HOUSE— 492 to 496 Xorth State 
street — was established in 1864 ; present capital invested, $60,000 ; 
number of employes, 15 ; monthly pay-roll, $900 ; production, 
15,000 bushels of malt per month. Tliis malt house started in 
1864 with one kiln, and has grown to its present dimensions 
through the energy, perseverance and honorable dealing of its 
proprietor. It was burned down in the great fire of October 9, 
1871, and was again in operation with tv\^o kilns, two stories and 
basement, by December 9th, in just two months. In the summer 
of 1872 the building was raised up, and is now five stories and 
basement, 125 feet deep by 64 feet front, on State street, with 
four kilns. 

L. C. HUCK & CO.'S MALT HOUSE — corner Canal ai]d 
Eighteenth street — was established in 1861; capital invested, 
$250,000; number of employes, 20; monthly 2:)ay-roll, $1,200; 
annual production, 300,000 bushels of malt; value, $375,000. 
This is the oldest established malt house in the Northwest, and 



12() MAl^UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

probably does the largest business. Mr. L. C. Hiick, well known 
in connection with Huck's Chicago Brewery Company before the 
fire, personally superintends the manufacture of malt. 

W. CAMPBELL'S MALT HOUSE — 201 Clinton street — 
was established in 1869; capital invested, $10,000; number of 
employes, 5 ; weekly pay-roll, $125 ; annual production, 40,000 
bushels malt ; value, $50,000. 

T.WACKER & CO.'S MALT HOUSE— comer Clybourn 

place and Southport avenue — was established in 1869; capital 
invested, $100,000; number of employes, 17; monthly pay-roll, 
$970 ; annual production, 200,000 bushels of malt, valued at 
$220,000. Manufacture malt exclusively for brewers and 
distillers. 

C. L. EPPS & CO.'S MALT HOUSE — corner- Schiller and 
Astor streets — was established in 1857 ; capital invested, $20,000 ; 
number of employes, 5 ; monthly pay-roll, $340 ; annual produc- 
tion, 70,000 bushels of malt; value, $75,000. They depend 
principally upon the outside market for their sales — selling in 
Philadelphia, Boston, New York, etc. Were burned out in the 
great fire, commenced rebuilding immediately, and before Christ- 
mas were filling orders. 

BUEHLEK & GEEMEE'S MALT HOUSE — 314 and 316 
Milwaukee avenue — was established in 1866; capital invested, 
$20,000 ; number of employes, 5 ; monthly pay-roll, $350 ; annual 
production, 50,000 bushels of malt ; value, $50,000. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



127 



BREWERIES AM DISTILLERIES -SUMMARY. 



Total number of establishments - 23 

capital invested.. $4,207,000 

512 

$3,465 

33,000 

48,130 

577,560 



number of employes 

amount of wages paid weekly 

amount of wages paid monthly... 
aggregate wages paid per month. 
Wages paid per year 



value of production for the year 9,130,600 

Comprising : 







Caintal. 


No. 
Employes. 


Monthly 
Wages. 


Annual 
Pfvduction. 


Breweries 

Distilleries 

Malt Houses _ 


10 

7 
6 


$2,762,000 
985,000 
460,000 


303 

142 

67 


$20,800 

23,040 

4,290 


$2,845,000 

5,335,600 

950,000 







Of the whole number — 23 — six were established previous to 1860. 



Brick and. Stone Manufactures. 



BRICK MASUFAGTORIES. 

It is not strange that the great demand and high price for 
brick since the great fire should have stimulated the manufacture 
and largely increased the production. Some of the most exten- 
sive yards in the city have been established within the past two 
years. 

y THE GREAT AMERICAN BRICK MACHINE CO.— 

yard on Ashland avenue between Twenty-second street and the 
river — E. R. Card, President — was established in 1872; capital 
invested, 1500,000; number of employes, 80; monthly pay-roll, 
$6,000 ; annual production, 10,000,000 brick, valued at 1125,000. 
Furnished brick for city sewers, and, among many others, the 
Fuller buildings. In addition to the brick business the Company 
manufacture large numbers of brick machines of the "Gard" 
patent. 

V STRAUSS, HAHNE & GO'S BRICK YARD — P. Mc- 
QuAiD, Superintendent — located at the corner of Wood street and 
Blue Island avenue — Avas established in 18G3 ; capital invested, 
$50,000; number of employes, 250; weekly pay-roll, $3,000; 
annual production, 25,000,050 brick, valued at $150,000. This 
is one of the oldest as well as the largest brick yards in the city, 
covering about ten acres of ground. Have also a yard on the 
Ogden Canal, North Side. They also manufacture uwo and a half 
million of pressed brick. 

MOULDING, HARLAND & CO.'S BRICK YARD — F. 

LoxGFELT, Superintendent — located near Ashland avenue bridge 
across the South Branch — was established in 1868; employ 70 
hands; monthly pay-roll, $5,000; annual production, 10,000,000 



MAN^UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 129 

brick. In addition to this yard the Company also manufacture 
Indiana red-pressed brick, hollow partition tiles, vases, flower- 
pots, drain tile, etc. Furnished brick for the Palmer House, 
Pacific Hotel, etc. 

HENRY JONES & CO.'S BRICK YARD — M. Nye, Super- 
intendent — Wood street, south of Blue Island avenue — estab- 
lished in 1872 ; capital invested, $100,000 ; number of employes, 
150; monthly pay-roll, $7,000; annual production, 11,000,000 
brick, value about $137,500. This Company furnished brick for 
the Potter Palmer House, and the Grand Pacific, and many 
other smaller buildings. 

HOYT & ALSIP'S BRICK YARD — Samuel Alsip, Super- 
intendent — located near Western avenue — was established in 
1872 ; employs 100 hands ; monthly pay-roll, $5,000 ; annual pro- 
duction, 8,000,000 brick, valued at $75,000. The yard has a river 
front of 800 feet, extending back 600 feet. They run three 
machines. 

WHITING BROS.' BRICK YARD — D. W. Bolan, Super- 
intendent — Ashland avenue and Blue Island — was established 
m 1872; capital invested, $10,000; number of employes, 37; 
weekly pay-roll, $560 ; annual production, 4,000,000 brick, value, 
$25,000. Furnished the brick for Aiken's Theater, Woodruff's 
Hotel and Western News Co.'s building. 

JOHN BUSSE & BRO.'S BRICK YARD, on Robey street, 
was established in 1870 ; employs 40 hands ; monthly pay-roll, 
$3,000 ; annual production, about 5,000,000 brick, value, proba- 
bly, $31,000. They furnished brick, among others, for the Singer 
building. 

HENRY KOERTZ'S BRICK YARD— Laflin street, near 
the river — wa-s established in 1873; employs 40 hands, with a 
monthly pay-roll of $2,000. Will probably turn out, during the 
vear, 5,000,000 brick. Israel LETOURJiTEAU is the general super- 
intendent of the yard. 

MILLER & JOHNSON'S BRICK YARD— John" McQuaid, 
Superintendent — was established in 1868; employs 25 hands, 
9 



130 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

weekly pay-roll, $300 ; annual production, 3,000,000 brick, value, 
probably, $18,600. Furnished the brick for the Barnum & Rich- 
ardson Manufacturing Co.'s new works ; also for Peter Schutlers 
new wagon works ; also furnished the brick for Palmer's and the 
Grand Pacific hotels. 

THE BRICK WORKS of Geit. 0. L. Mann, near the river, 
l)etween Robey and Wood streets — Mr. Sawyer, Superintendent — 
were established in 1872 ; capital invested, $20,000 ; nu-mber of 
employes, 110; monthly pay-roll, $6,000; annual production, 
5,000,000 brick, value, about $30,000. Has two yards on Robey 
and Wood streets and Blue Island avenue. Office, room 18, 
Major Block. 

THE BRICK WORKS of Omr & Kistner — Mr. Kruger, 
Superintendent — near the corner of Blue Island avenue and 
Robey street — was established in 1872; capital invested, $20,000 : 
number of employes, 70 ; monthly pay-roll, $5,000 ; annual pro- 
duction, 6,000,000 brick, valued at probably $50,000. 

JOXES & SMALL'S BRICK YARD — near Western-ave- 
nue bridge — was established in 1872; capital invested, $30,000; 
number of employes, 80 ; monthly pay-roll, $5,000 ; annual pro- 
duction, 6,000,000 brick, valued at $50,000. 

THE UAHTED STATES BRICK YARDS — F. C.Wells, 
Proprietor — south bank of the canal, near Brighton — was estab- 
lished in 1866 ; capital invested, $100,000 ; number of employes, 
20 to 300; monthly pay-roll, $3,000 to $15,000; the j^ards have 
a capacity of 150,000 to 250,000 per day; value of annual pro- 
duction, probably $300,000. 

N. EISENDRATH'S BRICK WORKS — G. Amman, Super- 
intendent — near Ashland-avenue bridge — were established in 
1872 ; number of employes, 40 ; monthly pay-roll, $3,000 ; annual 
production, 2,000,000 brick, valued at about $15,000. The yard 
is supplied with three machines. 

THE EXCELSIOR PRESSED BRICK MANUFACTUR- 
LSG COMPAXY — W. L. Gregg, President; Geo. D. Blair, 
Secretary and Treasurer — office 77 Dearborn street — was estab- 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 131 

lished in 1872 ; capital invested, $250,000 ; number of employes, 
120; monthly pay-roll, $3,000 to $4,000 ; production, 70,000 brick 
per day, equal in value to about $300,000 per annum. Manufac- 
ture Philadelphia pressed brick, and brick machines. The works 
are located at Gregg station, a suburban station on the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy railroad. Are represented in the Exposition 
by one Excelsior Brick Press. 

MILLER & MEYER'S BRICK YARD — Robey street — was 
established in 1868 ; number of employes, 50; monthly pay-roll,. 
$4,000 ; annual production, 4,000,000 brick, valued at probably 

$30,000. 

STAPLES & VAN LOAN'S BRICK YARD — J. Brott, 

Superintendent — on the river, near Ashland-avenue bridge — 
was established in 1868 ; number of employes, 30 ; monthly pay- 
roll, about $1,500. 



STONE CUTTERS. 

No one who is conversant with the progress made in the re- 
building of Chicago Avill be surprised at the Avonderful develop- 
ment of this branch of industry during the past two years. It is 
true that many of the stone cutting establishments had been 
established for some time before the great fire, but it is only since 
that event that they have developed to such gigantic proportions. 

THE SINGER & TALCOTT STONE COMPANY — M. f/^ 
Talcott, President; H. M. Sikger, Vice President; S. S. Kim- 
bell, Secretary and Treasurer ; C. B. Kimbell, Superintendent 
Cut Stone Department — located at 316 South Franklin street — 
was established in 1854; present capital invested, $300,000; num- 
ber of employes, 300 ; monthly pay-roll, $15,000. The Com- 
pany quarry their own stone at Lemon t, on the Illinois and Michi- 
gan Canal. They run eight canal boats and about 100 horses in 
the business, and operate the only Stone Planer in the West. 
They laid four miles in length of machine-dressed sidewalk duriug 
the year 1872 ; have furnished the stone for a number of the more 
prominent buildings of rebuilt Chicago. They were entirely 



132 MAN^UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

burned out in the great fire, but commenced receiving and filling 
orders on Wednesday after the fire. 

WENTHE & MAESSINGER STONE YfORKS— located 
on Franklin, between Jackson and Van Buren streets — were 
established in 1858 ; present capital invested, 11,000,000 ; number 
of employes, 350 ; monthly pay-roll, 120,000 ; value of annual 
production, 1600,000. These are the heaviest and among the 
oldest works of the kind in the city. They own and occupy 
nearly the entire block bounded by Jackson and Van Buren, and 
Franklin and Fifth avenue, and have all the necessary machinery 
for handling, savvying and dressing stone. Run by steam. 

HENRY KERBER'S STONE WORKS — at 340 Fifth 
avenue — were established in 1865; capital invested, 1100,000 ; 
number of employes, 225 ; monthly pay-roll, 117,000 ; value of 
annual production, 1500,000. Contractor and stone cutter for 
builders. Stone comes from Lemont, Joliet, Amherst, Cincin- 
nati, Berea and Lake Superior. Also, furnishes Kansas City 
sandstone, Kankakee stone, etc. Among the prominent buildings 
for which he has furnished the stone, are the Methodist Church 
block ; 12 houses for Clarke & Layton ; 19 houses for W. W. 
Strong ; the Gowdy & Chandler building, etc. 

. EDWIN WALKER'S STONE WORKS — corner Harrison 
and Franklin streets — were established in 1857; present capital 
invested, 1200,000 ; number of employes, 300 ; monthly pay-roll, 
$15,000 ; value of annual production, 1200,000. Stone is mostly 
quarried at Lemont, and brought to the yard by canal boat. 
Among some of the more prominent buildings for which Mr. 
Walker has furnished the stone, are the Singer building, corner 
State and Washington streets ; Criminal Court building, corner 
Illinois and Dearborn streets; Marine Bank building, corner 
Lake and LaSalle streets, etc. 

L. H. BOLDENWICK'S STONE WORKS — 11 to 33. 

Taylor street — were established in 1861; capital invested, $50,000; 
number of employes, 200; monthly pay-roll, 116,000; value of 
annual production, $285,000. Obtains his stone principally from 
Lemont and Cleveland quarries. The new Tremont House 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 133 

which has been so frequently admired and praised not only for 
the beauty of the architectural design, but for the perfection and 
excellence of the stone-cutter's work, received its stone from these 
works ; also the Grand Pacific, Peter Page's building, Wabash 
avenue and Washington street; the First National Bank, etc. 

W. 0. DEAKMAN'S STONE WOEK& — Harrison street, 
between Franklin and Fifth avenue — are the oldest in the city, 
having been established in 1853; present capital invested, 
$225,000; number of employes, 260; semi-monthly pay-roll, 
110,000. The works were destroyed by the great fire, but busi- 
ness was resumed the following week. Mr. Deakman is furnishing 
the cut stone for the new jail and criminal court house of Cook 
county — amount of contract, $117,000; has also several other 
contracts on hand which he is filling, averaging from 112,000 to 
118,000. Obtains his stone in the rough from Joliet, Lemont, 
Marquette, Michigan, etc. 

J. SCHMIDT & TEUFEL'S STONE WORKS — 370 Fifth 
avenue — were established in 1873; have $3,000 capital invested; 
employ 25 hands, with a v/eekly pay-roll of $400 ; value of annual 
production, $24,000. Cut all kinds of building stone. 

BURKHARDT & CO.'S STONE WORKS — corner Kings- 
bury and Ohio streets — were established in 1872 ; capital invested, 
$50,000 ; number of employes, 140 ; monthly pay-roll, $8,000 ; 
value of annual production, $175,000. Cut stone, dressing and 
polishing marble and granite works a specialty. Do all kinds of 
monumental works, mantels, etc., in granite and marble. Fur- 
nished the cut stone for Turner Hall; the Day building, corner 
Wabash avenue and Washington street ; St. Xavier Female Acad- 
emiV, corner Twenty-ninth street and Wabash avenue, and many 
others. 

HENRY FURST'S STONE WORKS — 443 to 455 Fifth 
avenue — were established in 1861; capital invested, $57,000; 
number of employes, 66 ; weekly pay-roll, $2,500. Cuts and 
dresses stone for building purposes ; general contractor for cut 
stone. Has furnished the stone for City National Bank build- 
ing; 0. S. Hough building, corner Harrison street and Wabash 



134 ma:n^ufactures of chica^go. 

avenue; Rawson's building, corner Clark and Madison streets; 
Dr. Davis' building, Washington street, near Wabash avenue; 
building southeast corner Wabash avenue and Jackson street, and 
a number of others. 

THE J. G. GINDELE STONE-CUTTING COMPANY — 
498 to 508 Lumber street — Geo. A., Feed. V., and Chas. W. 
Gii^DELE, Proprietors — was established m 1854; capital in- 
vested, $30,000; number of employes, 50; monthly pay-roll, 
$5,000. This Company furnished the stone for the Tribune 
building, the "Reaper Block," Galbraith's building, and many 
others. 

THE STONE WORKS of J. & W. Gravesoi^ — Mr. Proc- 
tor, Superintendent — on Cologne street — were established 
in 1872; capital invested, $100,000; number of employes, 150; 
weekly pay-roll, $3,000 ; value of annual production, $300,000. 
One of the most extensive stone works in the city. Machinery 
for handling, sawing and dressing stone unsurpassed. Cutting 
and sawing a specialty. 

THOS. O'CONNOR'S STONE WORKS — corner Twenty- 
second and Purple streets — were established in 1871; capital 
invested, $30,000; number of employes, 20; monthly pay-roll, 
$2,000; value of annual production, $50,000. Does a general 
stone-cutting and dressing business. 

PETER WOLF & SON'S STONE WORKS — 428 Fifth 
avenue — established in 1854, re-established in 1866; capital 
invested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 65 ; monthly pay-roll, 
$7,000; value of annual production, $175,000. They are agents 
for the Marquette Brown Stone Co. Furnished stone for the 
Purinton building, Wabash avenue, near Congress street; A. C. 
Hesing's building on North Side, and many others. 

DEINER & ROBINSON'S STONE WORKS — corner Har- 
rison and Franklin streets — established in 1872; capital invested, 
$25,000 ; employ 50 hands ; monthly pay-roll, $3,000 ; value of an- 
nual production, $85,000. Work Lemont, Cleveland and Lake 
Superior brown stone. Among the buildings furnished are the 
Morrison buildings; Allen & Bartlett, four buildings on South 



MAiH"UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 135 

Park Boulevard, between Forty-first and Forty-second streets; 
several residences on North Side ; C. P. McKay, two buildings 
corner Wabash avenue and Twenty-fifth street. 

SHERMAN, HALEY & CO.'S STONE WORKS — 206 East 
Twelfth street — established in 1872; capital invested, $50,000; 
number of employes, 160 ; monthly pay-roll, $9,000 ; value of 
annual production, 8150,000. Cut, dress and furnish principally 
Kankakee sandstone. Furnished stone for the Sherman House, 
Union National Bank building, etc. 

EARNSHAW, WORTHY & CO/S STONE WORKS — 264 

South Water street — established in 1869 ; capital invested, $60,000 ; 
employ 100 hands; monthly pay-roll, $5,000; value of annual 
production, $80,000. They make a specialty of furnishing stone 
for foundations, sidewalks, etc. 

JOHN GIBSON'S STONE WORKS — south side Harrison 
street, between Fifth avenue and Franklin streets — were estab- 
lished in 1866, with a capital of $12,000 ; employ 35 hands ; 
monthly pay-roll, $3,000 ; value of annual production, $80,000. 
Among the buildings for which Mr. Gibson has furnished the 
stone are the Mercantile building. La Salle street ; Chas. Busby's 
building, on site of Crosby's Opera House; Partridge build- 
ing, etc. 

PETER NEU & CO. — 350 Fifth avenue — established in 
1866 ; capital invested, $15,000 ; employ 40 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $600 ; value of annual production, $75,000. Among 
the buildings for which Messrs. Neu & Co. furnished the stone 
are Edson Keith's dwelling, Prairie avenue; the Michigan avenue 
Baptist church; N. P. Wilder's building, Washington street; 
H. H. McGee's building, corner of Randolph and LaSalle streets ; 
the Commercial National Bank building, corner Dearborn and 
Washington streets; Keith Bros.' store, Madison near Market 
street, and many others. 

P. FANNING'S STONE WORKS — 458 to 480 Fifth 
avenue — established in 1871; capital invested, $50,000 ; employs 
30 hands; weekly pay-roll, $1,000; value of annual production, 
$80,000. Manufactures principally building stone. Has fur- 



136 MAJq^UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

nished stone for Grand Pacific Hotel ; Cobb's buildings , M. W, 
Fuller's, on Dearborn street ; Kingsbury Block, Eandolph and 
Clark streets; Hess and McGinness' building, corner Wabash, 
avenue and Adams street. 

JACOB FURST'S STONE WORKS — 460 Fifth avenue — 
established in 1866 ; capital invested, $6,000 ; employs 10 hands ; 
semi-monthly pay-roll, $500 ; value of annual production, $23,000. 
Does a general stone-cutting and dressing business. Furnished 
stone for Hale & Co.'s building, corner State and Washington 
streets ; Wilks & Barclay's building, 141 State street ; Patterson's 
building, Calumet avenue, etc. 

FLETCHER BROS.' STONE WORKS —65 Third avenue 
— established in 1872 ; have about $3,000 capital invested ; em- 
ploy 20 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $400 ; value of annual 
production, $20,000. Furnish stone for foundation walls, etc., 
and do a large business furnishing stone for bridge piers, etc., 
outside. 

CARROLL & RYAN'S STONE WORKS — 319 and 321 

S. Clinton street — established in 1873, on about $1,000 capital; 
employ 12 men ; weekly pay-roll, $250 ; expect to turn out about 
$15,000 worth of stone the first year. 

McKEON & KELLY'S STONE WORKS — 266 to 270 

Twenty-first street — established in 1868 ; capital invested, about 
$2,000 ; employ 40 hands ; weekly pay-roll, $600 ; value of annual 
production, about $35,000. Do a general stone cutting and dress- 
ing business. 

WILLIAM RUDLING'S STONE WORKS — 1264 State 
street — capital invested, about $1,000; employs 6 hands; semi- 
monthly pay-roll, $130 ; value of annual production, about $8,000. 
Cuts and dresses building stone, and manufactures monuments, 
tombstones, etc. 

TAYLOR & BATCHEN'S STONE WORKS — corner of 
Harrison and Franklin streets — established in 1868; capital 
invested, $7,000 ; employ 15 hands ; semi-monthly pay-roll, $650 ; 
value of annual production, $20,000. Furnished stone for C. H. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 137 

McCormick's two buildings on South Water street ; Hall's resi- 
dence, corner of West Washington and Lincoln streets; eight 
residences for McCord, Cottage Grove; Hoffman's buildings in 
Ellis Park; Masonic Hall, corner Wapanseh and Cottage Grove 
avenues, etc. 



ROOFING SLATE WORKS. 

F. W. LEINBACH & CO., Proprietors; Ai^DREW P. Teel, 

Agent — office, 188 East Madison street — established in 1865; 
capital invested, 1500,000 ; number of employes, 200 ; weekly 
pay-roll, ^3,000 ; annual production, 100,000 squares roofing slate, 
valued at $500,000. Mine and ship roofing slate, slate tiling and 
flagging, etc. 



MARBLE MANUFACTURING WORKS. 

THE GOWEN MARBLE COMPANY — E. L. Goweit, 
President; E. H. Bradbuey, Secretary and Treasurer; G. A. 
Haley, Superintendent — 11 North Clark street — was estab- 
lished in 1869; incorporated in 1872; capital invested, 182,000; 
number of employes, 100 ; weekly pay-roll, $1,000 ; value of an- 
nual production, 1200,000. Manufacture monuments, tomb- 
stones, mantels, tiles, etc. Were burned out in the same location 
in the great fire ; commenced running in a temporary building 
one week after the fire. Were first to rebuild on the North Side. 
Tlie works were partially burned out again in November, 1872. 

THE GREENMAN MAEBLE WORKS — at 384 West 
Lake street — were established in 1854; capital invested, $2,000; 
number of employes, 10 ; weekly pay-roll, 1100 ; value of annual 
production, $15,000. Manufacture monuments, tombstones, man- 
tels, and all kinds of ornamental marble work. 

THE CHICAGO MARBLE-MANUFACTURING COM- 
PANY— Oren" Sherman", Superintendent — 713 and 715 Wa- 
bash avenue — was established in 1845; incorporated in 1872; 
capital invested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 125 ; weekly 
pay-roll, $1,500 ; value of annual production, $250,000. Manu- 



138 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

facture marble, slate, and iron mantels, grates, etc. Have fur- 
nished mantels for the Gardner House, Matteson House, Sher- 
man House, the Grand Pacific Hotel, Tremont House, and for 
the residences of Z. Letz, Badger, Coolbaugh, Louis Wahl, Leh- 
man, Albert Crane, Kelly, etc. 

NORTHWESTERN MARBLE AND GRANITE COM- 
PANY — H. C. HoFFMAi^, President; A. Melick, Vice-Presi- 
dent; E. M. Melick, Secretary and Treasurer; T. T. Thirsk, 
Superintendent — 147, 149 and 151 South Jefferson street. Es- 
tablished in 1872 ; capital, 115,000 ; number of employes, 25 to 
30 ; semi-monthly pay-roll, about $600 ; production of last year, 
625 marble mantels, of ail kinds ; 25 monuments of various kinds ; 
6 marble counters for hotels, etc., besides about 100 orders for 
plumbers' slabs, furniture marble, etc., valued at 180,000. It is 
the intention of this Company to largely increase their business 
during the two or three years to come. 

THE MARBLE AND SCOTCH GRANITE WORKS of 
James Warrikgtox — 117 West Monroe' street — were established 
in 1868 ; capital invested, 110,000 ; number of employes, 10 ; 
weekly pay-roll, $200; value of annual production, $30,000; 
manufacture tombstones, mantels, furniture tops, plumbers' 
slabs, etc. Turns out only the best work. 

UNION PARK MARBLE W^ORKS — McCulloch & Son 

— 563 West Madison street — established in 1867; capital in- 
vested, $2,000; number of employes, 12; weekly pay-roll, about 
$150 ; value of annual production, about $15,000. Manufacture 
as a specialty mantels, plumbers' and furniture slabs, etc. ; also, 
tombstones, monuments, etc. 

ITALIAN MARBLE WORKS — H. McMenemy, D. Dee- 
GAX and Jas. Mahony, Proprietors — 119 West Washington 
street — capital invested, about $2,000 ; number of employes, 7; 
weekly pay-roll, about $100 ; value of annual production, $10,000. 
Manufacture specially furniture tops, mantels, plumbers' slabs, 
etc. 

GARDEN CITY MARBLE WORKS — 174 South Jeffer- 
son street — were established in 1871, with a capital of about 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. I'M) 

$2,000, and employ 7 hands ; weekly pay-roll, about $100 ; value 
of annual production, about 115,000. Do all kinds of marble 
work. 

MARBLE AND SOAPSTONE WORKS of Atkinso^^ & 
Lord (successors to the Illinois Soapstone Co.) — 170 Adams street 

— established in 1S66; capital invested, 18,000 ; number of em- 
ployes, 16 ; weekly pay-roll, about $175 ; value of annual pro- 
duction, 130,000. Manufacture as a specialty, marble mantels 
and soapstone laundry tubs and sinks. The soapstone comes in 
a rough state from Francistown, N. H. Messrs. Atkiuson & 
Lord were burned out at 222 Washington street, and started again 
in one week. 

R. ORMSBY'S MARBLE WORKS — 85 East Twelfth street 

— were established in 1871, with a capital of a])out ^1,000 ; em- 
ploys 4 hands, and turns out about 15,000 worth of marble man- 
tels, plumbers' slabs, etc. 



ARTIFICIAL BUILDmG STONE MANUFACTORIES. 

THE FREAR STONE MANUFACTURING CO. — W. E. 

Smith, Superintendent — office, 147 La Salle street — was estab- 
lished in 1868 ; capital invested, 180,000 ; number of employes, 
50 ; weekly pay-roll, about $500 ; value of annual production, 
(1872) 1100,000. Manufacture artificial building stone for build- 
ings, door and window caps, sills, etc. Among the buildings erected 
are, the Hale building; Staats Zeitung building; the Bryant 
building, corner of Randoljili and Dearborn streets; Grannis 
building, Wabash avenue; Phoenix building, corner of Madison 
street and Fifth avenue; Ward's building, opposite the old Post 
Office, etc. 

CHICAGO COMPOSITION GRANITE CO.— Paul Roth- 
BARTH, Manager — works, foot of North avenue ; office, 168 Wash- 
ington street — was established in 1869; capital invested, $250,- 
000; number of employes, 60; monthly pay-roll, 14,500; value 
of annual production, 1150,000. Manufacture artificial building 
stone. Among the prominent buildings erected of this stone are, 



140 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

the Burdick House, Wabash avenue; front and trimmings, south- 
west corner of Wabash avenue and Adams street; Goggin & 
Schaffner block, southeast corner of State and Adams streets; 
Dr, Dyche's building, northwest corner of State and Eandolph 
streets; M. C. Stearns' building, Randolph street; Couch estate 
building, 219 to 223 Lake street, etc. Eepresented in the Expo- 
sition by samples of composition granite. 

CHICAGO ARTIFICIAL STONE CO. — Charles Hoff- 
man, President; Julius F. Hoffman, Secretary and Superin- 
tendent — at 306 to 331 North Market street — established in 
1872 ; incorporated in 1873 ; capital stock, 1100,000 ; number of 
employes, about 50 ; semi-monthly pay-roll, about $1,000. Manu- 
facture building stone, trimmings, etc. Among the prominent 
buildings that have been supplied may be mentioned Homan's 
building, front, 172 East Madison street; Wrenn's building, 
front, 192 and 194 East Washington street ; Glickauf 's block, 
front, corner of North Clark and Illinois streets ; Slosson's 
building, front, 82 State street, and many others. Represented 
in the Exposition by a full line of samples of their manufacture. 

THE RANSOME ARTIFICIAL STONE CO.— Wm. B. 
May, Superintendent, foot of Pier street, on the lake shore near 
Egan avenue — was established in 1872 ; capital invested, $80,000; 
number of employes, 47; weekly pay-roll, $375; value of annual 
production, $110,000. Manufacture building stone for fronts, 
and facades, window and door caps and sills, architectural orna- 
ments, floor and roof tiles, etc. Among the buildings erected of 
this stone are the Atlantic Hotel, corner Van Buren and Sher- 
man streets; Prout & Strong's building on Clark street; Mr. 
Horton's building on Lake avenue, near Douglas place ; a large 
hotel in Evansville, Ind., and many others that might be men- 
tioned. The stone trimmings and ornaments for scores of brick 
buildings have been furnished by the Ransome Stone Co. Their 
colored tiles for floors are unsurpassed. The Company is repre- 
sented in the grand Exposition by a full line of their 
manufactures. 

PORTLAND STONE WORKS — 401 and 403 North avenue 
— W. Gausden, Proprietor — established in 1873; capital in- 



MAI^UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 141 

Tested, $5,000; number of employes, 12; weekly pay-roll, $175; 
yalue of annual production, $25,000. Manufacture Portland 
building stone. Among the buildings that have been trimmed 
with this stone are, Lincoln Park Hall ; Smith & Glade's brewery ; 
St. Michael's church, etc. 



EOOFING MANUFACTORIES. 

BARRETT, ARNOLD & KIMBALL, Manufacturers of 
Roofing — 230 East Monroe street — established the business in 
1848; capital invested, $60,000; number of employes, 35; monthly 
pay-roll, $1,800; value of annual production, $275,000. Manu- 
facture felt and composition roofing, building and sheathing felt, 
paving cement, etc. This is the oldest and largest establishment 
of the kind in the city. Were burned out in the great fire, l)ut 
suS'ered an interruption of only two weeks, when they resumed 
business in the temporary buildings. 

J. WILKES FROST & CO.'S ROOFING MANUFAC- 
TORY — 193 La Salle street — was established in 1864; capital 
invested, $20,000 ; number of employes, an average of 25 ; weekly 
pay-roll, $500 ; value of annual production, $100,000. Manufac- 
ture, as a specialty, felt and composition roofing. The firm were 
burned out at 372 Illinois street, in the great fire, but immediately 
rebuilt, and in three days after the fire were running again. 

THE ROOFING MANUFACTORY of A. C. Davis & So>^, 
corner of Archer avenue and Butler street, was established in 
1873 ; capital invested, $2,000 ; employ 6 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $100;- value of annual production, $15,000. Have 
samples of their manufacture at the Exposition. 



ASPHALT PAVEMENT MANUFACTORY. 

J. L. FULTON & CO., Manufacturers of Asphalt Pavement — 
173 East Monroe street — established the business in 1870; capi- 
tal invested, about $3,000; employ 10 to 12 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $150; value of annual production, about $20,000. 
Manufacture the Rock Asphalt Pavement, samples of which are 
on exhibition at the Exposition. 



142 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO, 



ORNAMENTAL PLASTER WORKS. 

GODARD, LeJEUNE & CO., Manufacturers of Plaster Orna- 
ments, etc. — at 85 Third avenue — established the business in 1873 ; 
capital invested, $6,000 ; number of employes, 7 ; monthly pay- 
roll, $300; value of annual production, $100,000. Manufacture 
principally ornamental plaster, papier mache, stone, marble, wood 
and terra cotta — composition for churches, stores, steamboats, 
theaters, sleeping cars, etc. — ceiling flowers, cornice enrichments, 
capital trusses and enriched panels. Are represented in the 
Grand Inter-State Exposition by interior and center pieces, and 
friezes and mullions. 

NICHOLS & CO., Manufacturers of Plaster Statues, etc.— 217 
West Lake street — established the business in 1866; capital 
invested, $10,000; number of employes, 10; weekly pay-roll, 
$200 ; value of annual production, $20,000. Manufacture statues, 
brackets, centers, and all goods made of plaster of Paris. Are 
represented in the Gi'aud Exposition by a beautiful group of 
statues, statuettes, mid plaster works of all descriptions. 

DAPRATO BROS., Manufacturers of Plaster Statuary, etc. 
— 287 and 289 South Clark street — established the business in 
1868; capital invested, about $4,000; number of employes, 12; 
weekly pay-roll, $150 ; value of annual production, about $6,000. 
Manufacture as a specialty, statuary (for which they have a large 
number and great variety of moulds), center pieces, ornaments, 
moulds and blocks for hats, etc. Burned out in the great fire, at 
168 South Clark street. Started business at once after the fire at 
341 South Clark. 



TERRA COTTA WORKS. 

CHICAGO TERRA COTTA COMPANY— S. E. Loring, 
President; James Taylor, Superintendent — were established 
in 1866; capital invested, $80,000; number of employes, 75; 
monthly pay-roll, $2,500 ; value of annual production, $100,000. 
The works are located at the corner of Catharine street ; office 
and salesroom, 28 Wabash avenue. Manufacture as a specialty, 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



143 



statuary, garden, lawn and park ornaments, building ornaments, 
vases, etc. This is the only manufactory of the kind in the city. 
This Company have brought the manufacture of terra cotta to a 
degree of perfection never before attained. 



BRICK AND STONE MANUFACTURES -SUMMARY. 



Manufactures in brick, stone, plaster, etc., of every kind 66 

Total capital invested $3,695,000 

" number of employes 5,771 

' amount of wages paid weekly $22,370 

amount of wages paid monthly 218,003 

" aggregate wages paid per month 309,839 

wages paid per year 3,718,068 

value of production for the year. 7,896,200 

Comprising : 



Brick manufacturers 

Stone Cutters 

Marble manufacturers 

Artificial stone manufacturers 
Roofing slate " 

Roofing manufacturers 

Asphalt pavement manufacturers 
Terra cotta and plaster works 



16 


Capital. 


No. 
Employes. 


i 
Monthly 
Wages. 

$77,280 


$547,000 


1,472 


26 


1,802,000 


2,416 


185,476 


10 


178,000 


321 


15,808 


5 


515,000 


217 


10,050 


1 


500,000 


200 


12,750 


3 


130,000 


66 


4,350 


1 


3,000 


20 


650 


4 


100,000 


104 


4,100 



Annual 
Production. 



$1,552,200 
4,201,000 
632,000 
485,000 
500,000 
390,000 
20,000 
226,000 



Of the whole number — 66 — six were established previous to 1860. 



Chemical Works, etc 



CHEMICAL WORKS. 

STEELE & PEICE, Manufacturers of Baking Powders, etc., 
201 and 203 South Water street, established the business in 1866; 
capital invested, $75,000 ; number of employes, 50 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $800 ; value of annual production, 1400,000. Manufacture 
the original Dr. Price's celebrated Cream Baking Powder as a 
specialty; also flavoring extracts, lemon and orange sugar, etc. 
Burned out in the great conflagration, in the Garrett block, cor- 
ner of Lake and Market streets, and commenced soon after in 47 
and 49 West Lake street.' Occupy now a large five-story and 
basement brick building, and the business is constantly in- 
creasing. 

GILLETT'S CHEMICAL WORKS — Gillett, McCulloch 
& Co., Proprietors — 34 and 36 South Water streets — were estab- 
lished in 1852 ; employ 58 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $400. 
value of annual production, $400,000. This is the oldest estab- 
lishment of the kind in the city, and their goods have become 
^''standard" in their line throughout the country. They were 
burned out at 61 Michigan avenue in the great fire. They are 
represented in the great Exposition by a full line of their manu- 
facture — extracts, perfumery, baking powders, hair oils, etc. 

WESTERN CHEMICAL WORKS — J. M. Hirsh, Super- 
intendent — 43 and 45 State street — were established in 1865; 
capital invested, $20,000 ; number of employes, 35 , weekly pay- 
roll. $175 ; value of annual production, $60,000. The works were 
established by Mr. Hirsh in 1865. Manufacture, as a specialty, 
glycerine, albumen, carbolic acid, corn, sugar, etc. Alb.imen is 
produced from blood. Mr. Hirsh has succeeded in utilizing the 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 145 

blood that has hitherto been the great nuisance of the slaughter- 
houses, not only rendering it perfectly innocuous, but making 
it valuable as an article of commerce. The albumen is used 
extensively in the calico print works, and Mr. Hirsh supplies the 
Atlantic Mills and other eastern print mills. This is a manufac- 
ture in which the citizens of southwestern Chicago are interested, 
as it is also a great sanitary institution. 

STAK CHEMICAL WOEKS — S. P. Richards, Secretary 
and Treasurer — 46 and 48 Lake street — were established in 
1872 ; capital invested, $40,000 ; number of employes, 21 ; weekly 
pay-roll, $200 ; value of annual production, $125,000. Manufac- 
ture baking powders, flavoring extracts, perfumery, etc. 

A. C. YUNDT & PICKERIXG BROS. — Manufacturers of 

Flavoring Extracts, etc., 6 and 8 Wabash avenue — established 
the business in 1860 ; capital invested, $12,000 ; number of em- 
ployes, 11; weekly pay-roll, $100; value of annual production, 
$28,000. Manufacture especially, " Pickering's Flavoring Ex- 
tracts," perfumeries, etc. Burned out in the great conflagration, 
at the corner of Lake and State streets, where the manufacture 
was carried on by Potter & Pickering. Started again on Michi- 
gan avenue, immediately after the fire. 

FRANCO-AMERICAN HYGIENIC CO. — Delmar & 
Blackwell, Managers — 36 La Salle street — was established in 
1873 ; capital invested, $5,000 ; number of employes, five; monthly 
pay-roll, $175 ; value of annual production, $12,000 to $15,000. 
Manufacture perfumery, toilet articles, flavoring extracts, baking 
powders, etc. The Company is represented in the great Exjiosi- 
tion bv an elegant case of Perfumery. 



niET Am AVHITE LEAD MANUFACTORIES. 

HEATH & MILLIGAN, Manufacturers of Paints, Oils and 

White Lead — 170 and 172 East Randolph street — established 

the business in 1853, and are pioneers in this branch of industry. 

They have at present a capital invested of $300,000 ; employ 275 

10 



14(3 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

liands, with a weekly pay-roll of 13,000. The value of their 
annual productions amounts to 11,000,000. The firm were 
burned out in 1870, and had just rebuilt their store and works 
when the great fire occurred, and again burned them out. But 
not discouraged or dismayed, the ruins were not yet cold Avhen 
they had a large force at work clearing away the debris, prepara- 
tory to again rebuilding, and it was but a few days, comparatively, 
after the fire, ere they had their building erected and the business 
running, and for some time it stood solitary and alone on Ean- 
dolph street amid the ruins. This building is of brick, 30x165 
feet, five stories and basement ; another brick building in the 
rear is 40x60 feet, three stories and basement. Messrs. H. & M. 
did the painting and decorating for the Grand Pacific, the Sher- 
man and the Gardner houses. They are represented in the grand 
Exposition by a full line of their manufactures. 

THE CHICAGO WHITE LEAD AND OIL COMPAXY 

— J. F. Warren, President ; E. W. Blatchford, Vice-President ; 
C. F. Gates, Secretary — corner of ]N"orth Green and Fulton streets 

— was established in 1870 ; capital invested, $250,000 ; number of 
employes, 50 ; monthly pay-roll, $3,000 ; value of daily produc- 
tion, $2,000 — $624,000 per annum. These are the most complete 
works of the kind in the city. They occupy a new brick building 
100x125 feet in size, three stories and basement. There are six 
oil presses, seven French burr mills, thirty-three color mills, and 
four putty mills. The works are all driven by a splendid 200- 
horse-power steam engine. They use 600 bushels of flax-seed 
daily; have a daily capacity of 30 barrels of oil, 16,000 pounds 
lead, 25,000 pounds putty, and 2,000 pounds colors. 

THE CHICAGO WHITE LEAD WORKS, on Fifteenth 
street — employs 75 hands, but the proprietor, Mr. Shipmax, 
declined to afford any information in reference to the manufacture. 

THE AYRIGHT & LAWTHER OIL AND LEAD MAXU- 
FACTURIXG CO. — A. B. Lawther, President; James Wright, 
Secretary and Treasurer — 33 to 45 West Polk street — was estab- 
lished in 1872 ; employs 25 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $350 ; 
value of annual production, $300,000. Manufacture as a specialty, 
linseed oil and oil-cake. The Company has erected ample and 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 147 

even elegant brick buildings for the accommodation of their busi- 
ness, and have invested sufficient capital for the successful prose- 
cution of the manufacture of their specialties. 



YARXISH MANUFACTORY. 

DeGOLYEE & BRO/S VARNISH WORKS— 371 and 373 
Illinois street — were established in I860; capital invested, 150,- 
000; number of employes, 10; monthly pay-roll, $1,600; value 
of annual production, $^00,000. This is the oldest and most 
extensive varnish manufactory in the city. The works were 
entirely destroyed in the great fire, but soon after were rebuilt, 
and the manufacture commenced again. Messrs. DeGolyer & 
Brother have a house corner of ]N"orth Eighth and Sixth streets, 
Brooklyn, X. Y., also at 113 Sixth street, Troy, X. Y. 

THE CHICAGO VARXISH CO. — Potwin & Morgan, 
Proprietors — at 194 Pine street — was established in 1866, and 
turns ou.t about 8100,000 worth of all grades of varnish. They 
decline to give any further information. 

There aTe also small varnish works on Clybourn avenue, near 
Chicago avenue, but the proprietors declined to furnish any 
information in reference to the business. 



COXFECTIOXERY MANUFACTORIES. 

The candy manufacture is assuming vast proportions in this 
city. Our manufacturers supply nearly the entire Northwest 
with this apparently staple article. The amount of candy that 
our babies — big and little — consume is marvelous. 

BROOKS & ^^EEMES, CONFECTIONERY MANUFAC- 
TURERS — 28 and 30 Michigan avenue — the business was 
established in 1858 ; present capital invested, 880,000 ; number of 
employes, 150 ; weekly pay-roll, $1,000 ; annual production, 
1,800 tons ; valued at 8600,000. The business was originally estab- 
lished by C. W. Sanford, in 1858, the present firm. Brooks & 



148 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

Neemes, succeeding liim in Januaiy, 1871. They manufacture 
none hut pure goods, which for excellence of quality and flavor, 
are claimed to be unexcelled. 

E. PAGE & CO., Manufacturers of Confectionery— 211 and 
213 Lake street — established the business in 18G0; capital in- 
vested, $75,000 ; number of employes, 100 ; monthly pay-roll, 
$3,500 ; value of annual production, $600,000. Manufacture only 
the best goods, and sell to the trade throughout the Northwest. 
Were burned out in the great fire on Michigan avenue. Com- 
menced business immediately after the fire at 50 S. Green street, 
where they remained until the 20th of September, when they 
took possession of their present elegant quarters. 

P. L. GAREITY, Confectionery Manufacturer — 100 East 
Van Buren street — established the business in 18G1, succeeding 
a business that was established in 1854 ; capital invested, $20,000 ; 
number of employes, 25 ; monthly pay-roll, $1,100 ; annual pro- 
duction, 1,500,000 1-bs., value, $300,000. This house was doing a 
large and successful business at the time of the great fire of 
October 9, 1871 ; occupying the whole of the double building, 
Nos. 33 and 35 Eiver street. The amount manufactured the 
year before the fire was nearly 5,000,000 lbs. and valued at over 
$900,000. 

JAMES C. SIMMS, Confectioner— 56 State street — estab- 
lished the business in 1856, and is one of the pioneer candy man- 
ufacturers of the city; capital invested, $20,000; employs 20 
hands ; monthly pay-roll, $700 ; annual production, 450 tons, 
value, $200,000. Manufactures all kinds of candy, and none but 
pure goods. Was burned out in the great fire at 42 State street; 
resumed business, November 15th, at 694 Wabash avenue. He has 
since erected the building he now occupies, No. 56 State street, 
which he owns. 

LEVI J. COLBURN, Manufacturer of Confectionery, 67 East 
Randolph street — M. V. Lightcap, Superintendent — established 
the business in 1852; employs 67 hands; weekly pay-roll, $250; 
value of annual production, $300,000. Mr. Colburn was burned 
out in the great fire, and was the first to resume business after 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 149 

that event. Mr. Colburn is the oldest manufacturer in the 
business; has a large trade with country dealers throughout the 
Northwest, with wiiom his candies are very popular. Manufac- 
tures by steam all candies known to the confectioner's art. Fac- 
tory at 128 North May street. Is represented in the Exposition 
by a full line of his manufacture. 

C. F. GUNTHER, Manufacturer of Confectionery — McVick- 
er's Theater, Madison street — established the business in 1868; 
capital invested, 120,000 ; number of employes, 18 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $250 ; value of annual production, $80,000. Was burned out 
on Clark street ; resumed business at once, after the fire, at cor- 
ner of State and Twentieth streets. His trade is mostly in the 
city. Is represented in the grand Exposition by a very elaborate 
display of candies — the Grand Oriental Pavilion. 

GRAHAM & CO., Manufacturers of Confectionery — 13 South 
Halsted street — established the business in 1872 ; capital invested, 
120,000 ; number of emplo3^es, 15 ; weekly pay-roll, 1225 ; annual 
production, 150 tons of candy, value, $60,000. Manufactures, as 
a specialty, railway package candy. 



MEDICmE MANUFACTORIES. 

THE WARNER'S MEDICINE CO. — C. A. Folsom, 
Treasurer — 619 State street — was established in 1869; capital 
invested, $100,000 ; number of employes, 40 ; monthly pay-roll, 
$1,000; value of annual production, $120,000. Manufacture 
" Wine of Life," " English Gin," and "Aromatic Brandy." The 
sales of these three styles of bitters is increasing rapidly, and the 
capacities of the works are taxed to supply the demand. 

THE CO-OPERATIVE MEDICINE CO. — Geo. Powell, 

President — 75 North May street — was established in 1865; 
capital invested, $500,000; number of employes, 13; weekly 
pay-roll, $195 ; value of annual production, $100,000. Manu- 
facture specially West's and Wallace's family medicines and 
officinal pills ; also Wallace's stomach bitters. Manufacture 
about 50,000 pills per day. Were burned out in the great fire at 



150 MAXUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

138 and 140 East Kinzie street. Built the present works at 75 
North May street, and resumed business in fourteen days after the 
fire. 

THE EMMERT PROPEIETARY CO.— Johk S.Emmert, 
President and Superintendent — 296 West Lake street — was 
established in 1863 ; incorporated in 1872 ; capital invested, 
$10,000; number of employes, 10 to 15; weekly pay-roll, $115; 
value of annual production, $50,000. Manufacture specially 
Eilert's medicines, teething syrup, worm cakes, etc. ; also manu- 
facture harness oils, oil blacking and condition powders. 



VINEGAR MANUFACTORIES. 

SPINK BROTHERS' YIXEGAR WORKS — 333 and 335 

West Lake street — capital invested, $10,000 ; number of employes, 
three ; monthly pay-roll, $150 ; annual production, 12,000 barrels 
of vinegar. Manufacture pure cider and white wine vinegar. 
The works are claimed to be the most perfect in the city. Messrs. 
Spin'K Brothers were burned out in the great fire, at 136 East 
Kinzie street; recommenced the business on November 1st, 1871. 
Are represented in the Exposition by a full line of their manu- 
facture. 

S. DONNELL & CO.'S VINEGAR WORKS — 820 and 822 

¥v^est Lake street — were established in 1868; capital invested, 
$4,000; number of employes, three; weekly pay-roll, 875; annual 
production, 4,000 barrels, value, $20,000. Manufacture pure 
cider and white wine vines'ar. 



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MEYER & LANG'S VINEGAR WORKS — 116 North 
Desplaines street — were established in 1868; capital invested, 
$5,000; number of employes, five; weekly pay-roll, about $100; 
annual production, 2,200 barrels; value, $17,000. Manufacture 
principally cider vinegar, highwines, etc. 

THE OHIO VINEGAR WORKS — D. P. Miner & Co., 
Proprietors — 675 Carroll street — were established in 1869; 
capital invested, $5,000 ; employ five hands, with a weekly pay- 



MAXUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 151 

roll of 8100 ; annual production, 2,000 barrels ; value, $12,000. 
Manufacture No. 1 and XX pure cider and white wine vinegar 
for family and pickle use — guaranteed free from all impurities. 

J. J. WILSOX, MAXUFACTUEER OF VIXEGAR 
SHAYIXGS — 32 West Quincy street — established the business 
in 18T0 ; capital invested, 82,000; employs three hands, and turns 
out 85,000 worth of shavings, used in the manufacture of vinegar, 
l^er year. 

SODA AND MINERAL WATER MANUFACTORIES. 

JOHX A. LOMAX, Manufacturer of Soda Water, etc., estab- 
lished the business in 1852 ; present capital invested, 8150,000 ; 
number of employes, 80; monthly pay-roll, 81,160; value of 
annual production, 8175,000. Manufactures soda water, and bot- 
tles porter, ale, cider and lager beer. This is the oldest as well as 
largest establishment of the kind in the city. It occupies the 
enth'e building, 11, 16 and 18 Charles place, between Harrison 
and Van Buren streets, near Fifth avenue, 60x107 feet, four sto- 
ries high. The establishment runs fifteen wagons. 

W. H. HUTCHISOX^ & SOXS, Manufacturers of Soda 
Water, etc. — 211 West Randolph street — established the busi- 
ness in 1848 ; present capital invested, about 850,000 ; number 
of employes, 75 ; monthly pay-roll about 85,000, and turn out 
a large amount of soda water, cider, syrups, etc. Mr. Hutchi- 
son commenced making spruce small beer in 1848, and from that 
small beginning has grown the present large business, amounting 
to over 8100,000 a year. In 1865 he took his two sons into the 
business as partners, and the firm has continued the business 
since. 

JAS. STEXSOX, Manufacturer of Soda and Mineral Waters 

— 99 and 101 West Monroe street — established the business in 
1859 : capital invested, 810,000 ; number of employes, 25 ; weekly 
pay-roll, 8175 ; value of annual production, 875,000. Manufac- 
tures soda and mineral waters, as a specialty. 

BAROTHY & GILMAX, Manufacturers of Mineral Waters 

— 943 Wabash avenue — established the business in 1864; em- 



152 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

ploy 17 hands; monthly pay-roll, $600; value of annual produc- 
tion, $70,000. Manufacture champagnes and mineral spring 
waters, as a specialty. 

PAUL EAUZE — 124 North Canal street — established the 
manufacture of Ginger Pop in 1872 : capital, 87,000 ; employs 10 
hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 8200 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, 825,000. 

CHAMPAGNE CIDER WORKS — Arthur Christie, 
Proprietor — 362 and 364 South Halsted street — established m 
1872 ; capital invested, 86,000 ; number of employes, 10 ; weekly 
pay-roll, 8115 ; value of annual production, 825,000. Manufac- 
tures as a specialty the only genuine sparkling champagne cider. 
Has branch houses in Montreal, Quebec and St. Louis ; also 
manufactures ginger ale. 

F. H. PEABODY & CO., Manufacturers of Gmger Ale — 
10 Monroe street — established the business in 1873; capital 
invested, 86,000 ; employ 8 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of 
about 8100; value of annual production, 825,000. Market in 
most of the leading cities of the Northwest. 



. PICKLE MANUFACTORIES. 

W. ARCHDEACON'S PICKLE MANUFACTORY — 229 

to 239 South Water street — was established in 1860; capital 
invested at present, 150,000 ; number of employes, 400 ; weekly 
pay-roll, 81,500. A large majority of the employes are girls and 
boys, which accounts for the comparatively small pay-roll. Value 
of annual production, 8400,000. Manufactures pickles, preserves, 
jellies, saurkraut, etc. His sales are mostly in the city, to the 
wholesale jobbing trade ; and, notwithstanding the immense 
quantity of goods in his special line he turns out annually, the 
demand is still in excess of the supply. Is represented in the 
Exposition by a full line of his manufacture. 

THE CHICAGO PICKLE CO.— Wm. H. Oyikgtox, Presi- 
dent ; Geo. P. Ross, Secretary — 143 and 145 South Clinton 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 153 

street — was established in 1866; capital invested, $25,000; 
average number of employes, 10 ; weekly pay-roll, $100 ; annual 
production, 4,000 barrels of pickles. Manufacture all kinds of 
pickles. 

SOAP MANUFACTORIES. 

CHAS. E. WILLETTS, Manufacturer of Soap — 53 Michi- 
gan street — established the business m 1867; capital invested, 
135,000 ; number of employes, 15 ; weekly pay-roll, 1200 ; annual 
production, 2,500,000 pounds, valued at $150,000. Manufactures 
fine family soaps as a specialty. Was burned out m the great 
fire, and resumed business soon after on a larger scale. 

GRAHAM BROS.— Soap Manufacturers — 42 and 44 Clin- 
ton street — established the business in 18G8; capital invested, 
$18,000; number of employes, 11; weekly pay-roll, about $175; 
annual production — [They decline to give the value of their pro- 
duction, on the ground that it is so large, in proportion to the 
investment? that if people knew it, they would go into the busi- 
ness, and thus injure these manufacturers.] They manufacture 
fancy toilet soaps as a specialty ; also make perfumeries a portion 
of their manufacture. 

PLACE & EHRET, Manufacturers of Soap — 189 Mather 
street — have just established the business; capital invested, 
$30,000; number of employes, 12; weekly pay-roll, $180; pro- 
duction, $120,000 pounds per week; value of annual production 
will probably be $150,000. They manufacture a laundry soap 
from pure cocoanut oil. This is the only factory of the kind in 
the United States. The brands of this firm are " Cocoanut," 
" Champaign " and *• Primrose," which are sold for less than Bab- 
bitt's — best in the market. 

SOAP MANUFACTORY — Wrisley Bros., Agents — cor- 
ner Superior and Kingsbi^ry streets — was established in 1862 ; 
capital invested, $23,000; number of employes, 10; value of 
annual production, $50,000. Manufacture principally common 
family soaps ; also Wrisley's pulverized soap. Burned out in the 
great fire at 224 Kinzie street; started immediately after the fire 



154 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

corner of Hoyne and Hubbard streets. Commenced business in 
the present location in January, 1873. 

HUGH EITOHIE'S SOAP MANUFACTOEY — 211 to 221 

Goethe street — was estabhshed in 1849 ; capital inA^ested, 810,000 ; 
number of employes, nine; weekly pay-roll, 8125; value of an- 
nual production, about 820,000. Manufactures the various brands 
ot best iamily soaps. Mr. Ritchie is decidedly the pioneer soap 
manufacturer oi the city. Was burned out in the great fire, and 
rebuilt on the same site, his present works, and commenced busi- 
ness again m January following the fire. 

THOMAS DOUGALL, SOAP MANUPACTUREE — at 

37 to 43 Cedar street — established the business in 1848, and 
with seven hands, a weekly pay-roll of 884, turns out 865,000 
worth of soaps annually. 

GALLOWAY & SARGENT, SOAP MANUPACTURERS 

— corner of Throop and Sixteenth streets — established the 
business in 1872 ; capital invested, 825,000 ; number of employes, 
13 ; monthly pay roll, 8500 ; value of annual production is large. 
They manufacture soap by a new process, by which all the 
glycerine is saved, and more soap obtained than by the old way. 



OIL MA^^UFACTORIES. 

PAGE & SPRAGUE, Oil Manufacturers— 44 to 54 Illinois 
street — established the business in 1857 ; present capital invested, 
8150,000; number of employes, 20 ; weekly pay-roll, 8350 ; value 
of annual production, 8000,000. Messrs. Page & Sprague are 
the oldest and most extensive oil manufacturers in the city. They 
make a specialty of the manufacture of lard oil. Were burned 
out in. the great fire, but rebuilt immediately, shipping the first 
order, after the fire, October 18th. 

THE LAKE SHORE OIL WORKS — Maxwell, Wheeler 
& Co., Proprietors — 393 to 399 Illii*ois street — were established 
in 18G9; capital invested, 850,000; number of employes, 11; 
weekly pay-roll, 81 GO ; value of annual production, 8250,000. 
Manufacture lubricating and burning oils as a specialty. Were 
burned out in the great fire, but started up again shortly after. 



MAXUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



155 



AMERICAN OIL AXD PAIXT CO.— W. B. Hamilton, 
Isaac Frexch and John Merriman, Proprietors — John Mer- 
RiMAX, SuperiDtendent — 312 and 314 West Lake street — estab- 
lished in July, 1873 ; capital invested, 83,000 ; number of em- 
ployes, 4 ; monthly pay-roll, $300 ; production, 50 barrels of oil 
per month, value of annual production will be about $24,000. 
This oil is manufactured by a patent process. 

FREjSTCH & CO., extensive Oil Manufacturers, declined to 
give any information whatever. 



CHEMICAL WORKS, ETC.- SUMMARY. 



Whole number of establisliments of every kind 48 

Total capital invested $2,776,000 

" number of employes 1,850 

" amount of wages paid weekly $12,274 

" amount of wages paid monthly 19,065 

" aggregate wages paid per month 72,252 

" wages paid per year - 867,064 

" value of production for the year 8,145,000 

Comprising : 



Chemical works ! 6 

"White lead and oil works ! 4 

Varnish works j 2 

Confectionery works 7 

Medicine manufactories ; 3 

Vinegar works ' 5 

Soda water, mineral water,etc. 7 



Pickle manufactories 
Soap works 



2 

7 

Oil works 8 





No. 


(ipital. 


Employes. 


?260,000 


180 


750,000 


425 


175,000 


20 


266,000 


395 


610,000 


68 


26,000 


17] 


244,000 


215! 


175,000 


410 


156,000 


77 


103,000 


35 



Monthly Anmial 
Wages. Production. 



$7,628 
22,610 

2,200 
11,630 

1,600 

1.036 
11,693 

6,800; 

4,000! 

2,400' 



$1,028,000 
2,124,000 
300,000 
440,000 
270,000 
54,000 
820.000 
400,000 
615,000 
874,000 



Miscellaneous Manufaotuees. 



CLOTHmG MANUFACTORIES. 

The Eeady-made Clothing manufacture has grown, within 
the past few years, to immense proportions, and is fast assuming 
a front rank among the manufacturing industries of the city, 
several houses manufacturing over $1,000,000 worth per annum. 

CHAS. P. KELLOGG & CO., Clothing Manufacturers, 243 
to 249 Madison street, established the business in 1850 ; capital 
at present invested, 1800,000 ; number of employes, about $3,000 ; 
monthly pay-roll, about $40,000 ; value of annual production, 
$1,800,000. This is the largest clothing manufactory in the city, 
and probably west ot New York. They were burned out in the 
great fire at 24 and 26 Lake street, but, with the proverbial hero- 
ism and energy that has made "Chicago sufferers" so famous, 
they immediately went to work and fitted up the ruins of the 
old gray Presbyterian church, corner of Wabash avenue and 
Washington streets, and commenced manufacturing again, thus 
giving employment to many "fellow sufi'erers," who would other- 
wise have had "hard sledding" through the winter. 

' H. A. KOHN & BROS., Clothing Manufacturers, 10, 12 and 
14 Lake street — established the business in 1853; present capi- 
tal invested, $750,000; number of employes, about $3,000; 
monthly pay-roll, about $30,000; value of annual production, 
$1,500,000. This is the oldest, as well as one of the most exten- 
sive, clothing manufactories in the city. Enterprise and fair and 
honorable dealing have been the immediate cause of the immense 
growth of then- busmess. They were burned out on the site now 
occupied,- in the great fire, but resumed business immediately at 
545 Wabash avenue. They subsequently erected a temporary 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 157 

store ou the lake front, into which they moved in February, 
1872. There the}" remained until the elegant and commodious 
store now occupied was completed, which was in June, 1872. 
This store is on the old site, but on an enlarged scale, being 
66 by 125 feet in size, five stories and basement. The firm 
manufacture only the better class of clothing goods. 

SIMON, MEYER, STRAUSS & CO. — Clothing Manufac- 
turers — established the business in 1868; employ about 1,000 
hands, to whom they disburse monthly, $20,000 ; their annual 
production amounts to $1,000,000. They were burned out in 
the great fire, at 18 Lake street, and commenced to manufacture 
in just two days after. In August, 1872, the firm moved to their 
present quarters in Drake's block, corner of Wabash avenue and 
Washington street. 

CLAYBURGH, EINSTEIN & CO. — Manufacturers of 
Clothing — 64 and 66 Wabash avenue — established the business 
in 1864 ; they employ 563 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $5,000; 
value of annual production, $850,000. Manufacture all styles 
and qualities of men's clothing as a specialty. Were burned out 
at 27 Lake street, and, though losing an immense stock of fall 
and winter cloths that had just been received, as well as a large 
stock of manufactured goods ready for the fall trade, they paid 
up in full, without asking a day's extension. 

W. A. HETTICH, Clothing Manufacturer — 81 Madison 
street — established the business in 1863; capital invested, 
$10,000 ; employs six hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $50 ; value 
of annual production, about $10,000. Manufactures exclusively 
gents' shirts, and makes a specialty of the " Chicago shirt " of 
different styles and prices; is also dealer m gents' furnishing 
goods. 

HART BROTHERS, Clothing Manufacturers— Abe Schaff- 
NER, Superintendent manufacturing department — 79 and 81 
Wabash avenue — established the business in 1857; capital in- 
vested, $200,000 ; number of employes, 180 ; monthly pay-roll, 
$5,000 ; value of annual production, $400,000. Manufacture as 
a specialty woolen shirts, drawers, overalls, etc., for the gents' 
furnishing goods trade. They were burned out in the great fire 



158 MAIS'UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

at 28 Lake street; took temporary quarters and commenced 
business the week following, while building a temporary brick 
store on the lake front, which they occupied December 1st. 
Moved into their present quarters June 20th, 1872. 

EINDSKOPF, BAEBE & CO. — Clothing Manufacturers 

— 75 and 77 Wabash avenue — established the business in 1872 ; 
capital invested, $150,000 ; number of employes, 800 ; monthly 
pay-roll, $15,000 ; value of annual production, 8000,000. Manu- 
facture men's fine clothing as a specialty. 

CLEMENT & SAYER, Clothing Manufacturers — 284 and 
286 Milwaukee avenue — established the business in 1869; 
capital invested, including store, $80,000 ; number of employes, 
200 ; monthly pay-roll, 84,500 ; value of annual production, 
$250,000. Manufacture men's, youths', boys' and children's 
clothing for the wholesale and retail trade ; also, shirts, drawers 
and overalls. 

LINDAUER, LEVI & CO., Manufacturers of Clothing 

— 75 and 77 Wabash .avenue — established the business in 
1866 ; capital invested, $125,000 ; number of employes, 100 ; 
monthly pay-roll, about $5,400; value of annual production, 
$200,000. Manufacture mainly w^oolen and white shirts and 
overalls, and job a general line of gent^s furnishing goods. This 
firm was burned out in the great fire, at 20 Lake street, and were 
among the first to commence business on the lake front. 

PRICE, ROSENBLATT & CO., Clothing Manufacturers — 
Mr. Eisker, Superintendent of manufacturing department — 
34 and 36 Lake street — was established in 1864; capital in- 
vested, $100,000 ; number of employes, 65 ; monthly pay-roll, 
$2,000. Manufacture as a specialty, shirts and overalls. Were 
burned out in the great fire, at 42 Lake street. Commenced 
manufacturing again within a week, at 147 Twenty-second street. 
Subsequently removed to the lake front, corner of Jackson street. 

J. W. GRISWOLD & CO., Manufacturers of Clothing 

— 54 and 56 East Madison street — established the business in 
1863; employ 50 to 75 hands; weekly pay-roll, $300 to $500; 
value of annual production, $50,000 to $75,000. Manufacture 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 159 

exclnsiyely ladies' wear — cloaks, suits, underwear, etc., for the 
jobbing trade. This firm manufactures on a large scale, using 
improved machinery and steam power. Their sewing machines 
are all run by steam. 

TOMLIXSOX & CO., Clothing Manufacturers — 1 GO State 
street — established the business in 1867; employ from 50 to 
150 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $600 to $1,200 ; value of 
annual production, $125,000. Manufacture exclusively white 
shirts. Were burned out in the great fire, on State street, and 
resumed business immediately after. 

WILSON BROS., Manufacturers of Shirts — 67 and 69 
Washington street — established the business in 1863; they 
employ 165 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $1,200. Annual 
production, 4,500 dozen custom shirts — value of annual produc- 
tion, $150,000. Manufacture exclusively fine white shirts. 
Ninety-five per cent, of their manufacture is made to the indi- 
vidual measure of customers. 

There are several other extensive clothing manufacturing 
establishments, the proprietors of which, for various reasons, failed 
to furnish any information. Cahn, Wampold & Co., Tuttle, 
Thompson & Wetmore, L. F. Leopold & Co., Leopold Khu & Co., 
whose business would mateiiially swell the aggregate figures of 
this branch of industry. 



HAT, CAP AXD FUR MANUFACTORIES. 

J. A. SMITH & CO., Hat and Fur Manufacturers — 161 
State street — established the business in 1835 ; present cajoital 
invested, $75,000; number of employes, 30: monthly pay-roll, 
$1,500 ; value of annual production, $150,000. This is the oldest 
firm in Chicago, at the present time, if not the oldest in the 
Xorthwest, having had a continuous business existence for 
thirty-eight years. They are also the largest manufacturers of 
fine hats, and ladies' and gents' fine furs, west of New York City. 
They have for many years been extensively engaged in shipping 
and importing furs, and their large experience and extensive 
facilities have enabled them to successfully compete^ both in style 



160 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

and quality, and prices, with the best furriers either in this 
country or in Europe. Messrs. J. A. Smith & Co. are repre- 
sented in the grand Exposition by a full line of ladies' and gents' 
fur goods of their manufacture. 

S. W. STEYKER, Hat and Fur Manufacturer — 231 West 
Madison and 114 South Clark streets — established the business 
in 1867; capital invested, $50,000; employs 30 hands ; monthly 
pay-roll, $2,500; yalue of annual production, $150,000. Manu- 
factures principally sable, mink, seal and various other kinds of 
furs ; also manufactures silk hats of the latest styles. 

C. MACKENZIE, Hat a^nd Cap Manufacturer— 103 Madison 
street — established the business in 1867 ; capital invested, $20,000 ; 
employs 30 hands ; weekly pay-roll, $500 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, $75,000. Manufactures principally silk hats of the latest 
styles and finest quality. Was burned out at 120 Dearborn street, 
and the factory also, at 122 to 124 Clark street. In five days after 
the fire, commenced work at 633 State, and in ten days at corner 
of West Madison and Jefferson streets. May 10th, 1873, opened 
at his present quarters. Has a full line of hats at the Exposi- 
tion. 

GLANZ & HOFFMMAN, Fur Manufacturers — 124 Fifth 
avenue — established the business in 1864; capital invested, 
$25,000 ; number of employes, 30 ; weekly pay-roll, $350 ; value 
of annual production, $90,000. Manufacture furs, exclusively, 
for the trade. Their lines include the most rare and costly sets, 
and they make a- specialty of fine furs. They were burned out 
in the great fire, at 99 and 101 Lake street, and re-opened at 159 
West Madison street in about three days after, where they were 
burned out a second time, and about the first of March, 1872, 
opened at their present quarters. Are represented in the grand 
Exposition by a full line of their manufactures. 

THE HAT AND CAP MANUFACTOEY of Victor Ge- 
RARDiN" — 183 South Clark street — was established in 1854; 
capital invested, $10,000; number of employes, 15; weekly pay- 
roll, $225; value of annual production, $25,000. Manufactures 
as a specialty silk and cassimere hats; sells to dealers principally 
in the city. This is the oldest hat manufactory in the city. Was 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 161 

burned out in the great fire, at 51 and 53 La Salle street ; com- 
menced business ten days after on Canal street, where he remained 
until he took possession of his present quarters. 

HIESCH & EELICH, Cloth Hat and Cap Manufacturers — 
125 Fifth avenue — established the business in 1872; capital 
invested, $8,000 ; number of employes, 20 ; weekly pay-roll, 1400 ; 
value of annual production, $50,000. Manufacture exclusively 
cloth hats and caps of all styles and descriptions. 

J. C. GCEBEL'S HAT AND CAP MANUFACTOEY — 

112 Fifth avenue — was established in 1868; capital invested, 
$6,000 ; employs 30 hands ; weekly pay-roll, about $300 ; value 
of annual production, $60,000. Manufactures principally cloth 
hats and caps for the trade. Was burned out in the great fire, at 
74 and 76 Lake street, and in about a month after commenced 
business at 154 West Lake, and subsequently removed to his 
present location. 

H AEEIS & HALL, Hat and Fur Manufacturers — southeast 
corner of Clark and Monroe streets — established the business in 
1871 ; capital invested, $25,000 ; employ 11 hands, with a monthly 
pay-roll of about $500 ; value of annual production, $100,000. 
Manufacture fine furs as a specialty. Also manufacture silk and 
cloth hats and caps. 

BISHOP & BAENES, Hat and Fur Manufacturers — corner 
State and Monroe streets — established the business in 1865 ; em- 
ploy 18 hands, with a monthly salary of $600 ; value of annual 
production, $150,000. Make a specialty of the manufacture of 
fine furs — carrying on the *m_anufacture throughout the year. 
They manufacture largely mink, seal, ermine, and all fine furs. 
They manufacture also a full line of silk hats, fur caps, etc. The 
firm is represented in the Exposition by a full line of hats and 
furs. 

PAEKEE & TILTON, Manufacturers of Hats — 83 South 
Clark street — established the business in 1873 ; employ about 10 
hands, with a monthly pay-roll of about $750. Manufacture 
silk, beaver, cassimere, felt, straw, and opera hats. Make a spe- 
cialty of bringing out elegant and fashionable hats for extraordi- 
11 



1G2 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

nary occasions. Their "Jubilee" hats were very popular, and 
their •* Four-in-hand " hats, brought out for the " summer meet- 
ing '' at Dexter Park, were equally so. Their " Exposition " hat, 
which they have had manufactured expressly in honor of our 
grand Inter-State Exposition, is decidedly the nobbiest and most 
stylish hat of the season. Messrs. Parker & Tilton are repre- 
sented in the Exposition by a full line of their goods, and make 
one of the finest displays of the section. 

JOHX WELCH, Hat Manufacturer — 188 Washington street 
— established the business in 1866 ; capital invested, about 83,000 ; 
employs three hands, and turns out about $10,000 worth of silk 
hats annually. 



LADIES' HAT MAXUFACTORIES. 

LADIES' HAT MANUFACTORY of Hewes & Prescott— 
258 Wabash avenue — was established in 1857 ; they employ about 
100 hands; Aveekly pay-roll, $700; the amount of production is 
from 4,000 to 5,000 hats per week, valued at some 83,000 to 
84,000 per week, about 8175,000 per year. The specialty of their 
manufacture is straw and velvet hats. Mr. Hewes is the pioneer 
of this branch of manufacture in the city. The first case of ladies' 
hats ever made in Chicago was produced by Mr. Hewes in the 
spring of 1858. The feat at that day created quite an excitement. 
The case was sold to J. H. Weber, now of the American Hat Co., 
of Xew York. From that small beginning has grown up a man- 
ufacture of real importance. The firm were burned out, in the 
great fire, at 143 Lake street, and started immediately after at 
Twenty-second street. They built and occupied their elegant 
and commodious quarters by the first of M^arch following the 
great fire. 

LADIES' HAT AND FRAME MANUFACTORY of Wm. 
TuRKiXGTON — 260 Wabash avenue — was established in 1869; 
capital invested, 810,000 ; number of employes, 80 to 100 ; weekly^ 
pay-roll, 8700 ; value of annual production, 875,000. Manufac- 
tures specially fancy braid, velvet, plush and felt hats for ladies; 
also hat frames of all the fashionable styles. Manufactures for 



MAXL'FACTL'RES OF CHICAGO. 163 

the wholesale trade exclusively. Was burned out, in the great 
fi]'e, at 67 and 69 Lake street; started the manufacture again in 
two weeks at his residence, and subsequently removed to the lake 
front. Recently took possession of liis present commodious 
quarters. 

CHICAGO STRAW WORKS — Hat and Frame Manufac- 
tory and Bleeching Establishment — E.J. Tur]S"ER, Proprietor — 
6S> and 70 State street — were established in 1864; capital, $10,000 ; 
employes, 100; weekly pay-roll, $700; value of annual produc- 
tion, 850,000. Manufactures all kinds of ladies' straw and fancy 
hats, bonnets and frames; also manufactures blocks for ladies' 
and gents' hats. First established the business at 122 and 124 
Lake street; subsequently removed to 79 Lake street, where he 
was burned out in the great fire. Reopened, the following Feb- 
ruary, at 258 State street, where he remained until the first of 
July last, wdien he remoyed to his present quarters, where he is 
permanently located, w4th better and greater facilities for his 
manufacture than ever before. 



NECK-WEAK MANUFACTORY. 

BROWNSON, BROS. & CO., Neck-wear Manufactory— 192 
and 194 East Madison street — was established in 1865 ; capital 
invested, $25,000 ; number of employes, 60 ; weekly pay-roll, $300 ; 
value of annual production, $80,000. Manufacture neck-wear 
of all styles as a specialty. They have just brought out as a 
timely production the "Exposition Scarf," manufactured ex- 
pressly for this occasion. They are the leading manufacturers 
in this line of goods in the city. They manufacture only fine 
and fashionable goods. Messrs. Brownson, Bros. & Co. are also 
Western agents for Gray's Patent Collar, and their store is the 
Western depot for the •' Burlock Diamond Shirts." Their annual 
sales amount to $250,000. 



COTTOX BATTING MANUFACTORIES. 

HARRIS & KOCH, Manufacturers of Cotton Batting — 
162 and 164 Twentieth street — established the business in 1869; 
capital invested, $15,000 ; employ 15 hands, with a weekly pay- 



164 MAKUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

roll of $200 ; value of annual production, $75,000. Manufacture 
cotton batting of all descriptions; make a specialty of linings 
for carpets. Sell largely to dry goods houses. This is claimed to 
be the largest mill of the kind in the city. Represented in the 
grand Exposition by samples of their manufactures. 

GRAL'L & GEUBBS, Manufacturers of Cotton Batting — 
92 and 94 Illinois street — established in 1859; capital invested, 
$10,000; number of employes, 15; weekly pay-roll, $150; pro- 
duction, 12 bales, of 450 pounds each, per week ; value of annual 
production, $50,000. Manufacture all descriptions of batting. 
Sell mostly to city dealers. Are represented in the great Ex- 
position. 

MOSSER & SULZER, Manufacturers of Cotton Batting— 
432 North Clark street, corner of Elm — established the business 
in 1861 ; capital invested, $5,000 ; number of employes, 5 ; weekly 
pay-roll, $75; value of annual production, $12,000. Their mar- 
ket is mostly outside the city, throughout the Northwest. The 
present firm was formed four years since. They were burned out 
in the great conflagration, but started again, in the same place, in 
a few weeks. The works will be greatly enlarged during the 
present season. 



BED AXD BEDDING MANUFACTORIES. 

A. S. ESMAY'S BEDDING MANUEACTORY— T^as estab- 
lished in 1865 ; capital at present invested, $7,000 ; employs 12 to 
18 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $150; value of annual pro- 
duction, about $45,000. Manufactures, as a specialty, bedding 
and mattresses — hair, moss, palm, wool, husk, excelsior, grass 
and cotton are among the ingredients used in the mattress manu- 
facture. Mr. EsMAY was doing a very large business at 122 E. 
Monroe street, at the time of the great fire, which was entirely 
destroyed. He started the business, the day after the fire, at 135 
West Lake street, temporarily, but removed to 217 AY. Madison 
street, soon after. 

GREEN & SPEAR, at 257 W. Madison street, manufacture 
all kinds of Mattresses and Bedding generally ; also manufacture 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 165 

Crosby's Combined Sofa and Bed as a specialty, and do a general 
upholstering business, and deal in all kinds of spring beds. 
Established the business in 1872; capital invested, 13,000; num- 
ber of employes, 8, with a weekly pay-roll of $125 ; value of 
annual ^oroduction, 110,000. 

THE BEDDING MA:NUFACT0RY of Louis Korni- 
KER, at 593 State street, was established in 1870, with a capital 
of about $2,000 ; employs 6 hands, with a weekly pay-roil of 
about $75 ; value of annual production, about $7,000. Manu- 
factures principally comforters and hair, moss, excelsior, and corn 
husk mattresses. Has sample mattresses at the Exposition. 

H. D. WALKER, 683 State street, manufactures Beds and 
Bedding ; business established in 1871, with a capital of about 
$3,000 ; employs 10 hands ; weekly pay-roll, about $100 ; value of 
annual production, $15,000. Makes a specialty of upholstery. 



BAKERIES. 

This branch of industry has expanded greatly within a few 
years past. There are few cities in the country, if any, that can 
show more extensive or more complete works of this kind. 

C. L. WOODMAN & CO.'S BAKERY — C. L. Woodmai^, 

Superintendent — corner of Canal and Adams streets — e&tab- 
lished January 1st, 1869; capital invested, $100,000; number of 
employes, 85 ; weekly pay-roll, 1,050 ; annual production, 75,000 
pounds of crackers and 1,560,000 loaves of bread, value, $450,000. 
The works were entirely destroyed, in the great fire, on Kinzie 
street. The business vras resumed, with entirely new machinery, 
new ovens and building, in 37 days from date of fire, with baking 
capacity of 800 pounds of crackers per day. Bread and crackers 
are the specialty. Is represented in the Exposition by samples 
of bread and crackers. 

THE DAKE BAKERY— Blake, Walker & Co., Propri- 
etors — 24 and 26 North Clinton street — was established in 1865 ; 
capital invested, $158,126; number of employes, 98; weekly pay- 
roll, $1,450 ; annual production, 136,032 barrels of crackers (in 



166 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

1872) ; value 1525,000. The manufacture of crackers of all kinds 
is the specialty. Goods are sold from New York to Denver, and 
from the Gulf States to the mining territory of Lake Superior. 
This immense establishment was formerly located in the rear of 
McVicker's Theater, in center of block bounded by State, Dear- 
born, Madison and Monroe streets, where it was entirely destroyed 
in tlie great fire, with a loss to the proprietors of $100,000. 
Ground was broken for the new building on October 17, 1871, 
and the business was commenced in it on December 20. The 
building is of four stories, 151 by 42 feet in size. The works are 
run by a 40-horse power engine ; two largest sized McKenzie 
ovens and three common ovens jire used. 

THOMSON & TEMPLETON'S BAKEEY — 213 Ran- 
dolph street — was established in 1852; capital invested 125,000; 
number of employes, 25 ; weekly pay-roll, 1350 ; value of annual 
production, $150,000. Manufacture crackers as a specialty ; also 
manufacture bread, cake, etc. Depend principally upon the out- 
side market throughout the Northwest. This is the oldest estab- 
lishment of the kind in the city. 

THE EXCELSIOR BAKERY — Farotm & Chidester, 

Proprietors — 61 North Halsted street — was established in 1867 ; 
capital invested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 47 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $575; annual production, 1,500 barrels of crackers, 250,000 
loaves of bread, valued at $15,500. Manufacture bread and 
crackers, as a specialty, for the jobbing trade. Are represented in 
the Exposition by samples of their manufacture. 

THE BAKERY of Aureus McGowan, at 172 West Lake 
street, was established in 1860; capital invested, $15,000; em- 
ploys 10 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $150 ; value of annual 
production, $50,000. Bread and crackers a specialty. 

D. F. BREMNER'S FINE BISCUIT MANUFACTORY 

— 78 and 80 O'Brien street — was established in 1871 ; capiUil in- 
vested, $45,000 ; number of employes, 48 ; weekly pa}' -roll. $600 ; 
value of annual production, $250,000. Manufactures especially 
line biscuits and crackers, equal in all respects to the imported 
Scotch and English articles of the same class. This is the only 



MAXUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 167 

"bakerv in the city devoted to this line of manufacture. A fac- 
tory J:2x80 feet, two stories and basement, was erected and 
supphed with three rotary ovens, especially adapted to this busi- 
ness, and an experienced foreman obtained from Edinburgh, 
Scotland, and the object of the proprietor has been fully attained, 
in the production of goods that are declared superior to the best 
imported. The business will continue to grow. Mr. Bremner's 
establishment is represented in the grand Exposition by a tempt- 
ing display of his product. 

SMITH, COLLIEE & CO.'S BAKERY— A. S. Ward, Super- 
intendent — 189 West Eandolph street — was established in 1868 ; 
capital invested, about $15,000 ; number of employes, 18 ; weekly 
pay-roll, $175 ; value of annual production, $45,000. Manufac- 
ture crackers exclusively for the trade. 



FLOURIXG MILLS. 

Chicasfo has alwavs boasted of her immense transactions in 
grain, and that justly, for they exceed the transactions of nearly 
the whole world beside; and that may account for the fact that so 
little progress has been made in the business of manufacturing 
grain into flour and meal. Indeed, we have little to boast of in 
the line of flouring mills, many much smaller places surpassing 
us in this particular branch of manufacture. Still, the mills we 
have do a large and profitable business, fully up to their capaci- 
ties. 

STAR AXD CRESCENT MILLS — Clixtois^ Briggs & 
HEERMAi^S, Proprietors — 2 and 4 West Randolph street — were 
established in 1866 ; capital invested, $200,000 ; number of em- 
ployes, 35 ; weekly pay-roll, $500 ; annual production, 150,000 
barrels of flour, valued at $1,000,000. The brand of the Star 
and Crescent Mills has long stood in high repute with house- 
keepers and bakers. Some millers take the best wheat and make 
very commonplace flour, while others will take even a medium 
grade of wheat and turn out a really fine article of flour. The 
Star and Crescent Mills, while they are particular to obtain the 
very best stock in the market, make the very best flour that can 



168 MANUFACTUBES OF CHICAGO. 

be extracted from any grade of grain. These mills are repre- 
sented in the great Exposition by sample barrels and sacks of its 
flour. 

THE ORIENTAL FLOURING MILLS — Norton, Cole 
& Co., Proprietors — 1 and 3 West Madison street — W£re estab- 
lished in 1861 ; capital invested, $150,000 ; number of emplo3^es, 
25; weekly pay-roll, 1400; annual production, 110,000 barrels of 
flour, valued at $750,000. This mill, standing at the west end of 
Madison -street bridge, has for the past twelve years been a famil- 
iar landmark. The best quality of flour is turned out, the market 
for which is largely found among the dealers of the city, the citi- 
zens of Chicago generally preferring an article they know to be 
good to the fancy foreign brands that are imported from outside 
mills. Messrs. Norton, Cole & Co. take great pains to keep up 
the reputation of their flour as equal to the best brands in the 
market. 

THE MARINE MILLS — J:!^o. Whitley & Co., Proprie- 
tors — ()Q and 68 N. Canal street — were established in 1858; 
capital invested, $20,000 ; number of employes, 12 ; monthly pay- 
roll, $700 ; annual production, 6,000 tons of meal and 8,000 tons 
of feed. This mill, one of the oldest in the city, has recently 
changed hands, and is now owned by one of our most earnest, 
active and thorough-going business men. Mr. John Whitley, 
present proprietor, has had years of experience in this line of 
business. Since taking charge of the Marine Mills, Messrs. Whit- 
ley & Co. have attached to it a " purchasing and supply agency," 
more especially for the benefit of their customers and patrons in 
the lumber regions of Michigan and Wisconsin; and their facili- 
ties are such that they can furnish, on an hour's notice, any rea- 
sonable amount of grain, groceries and provisions, for shipment. 

THE MILL of F. S. Hanson — 145 and 147 West Lake 
street — was established in 1860; capital invested, $40,000; num- 
ber of employes, 15 ; w^eekly pay-roll, $200 ; value of annual 
production, $150,000. Manufactures flour, feed and hominy. 

CHICAGO OATMEAL MILLS — Evans & Oliver, Pro- 
prietors ; David Oliver, Superintendent — 66 and 68 N. Halsted 
street — were established in 1867; capital invested, $20,000; 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 169 

number of employes, 22 ; weekly pay-roll, 1250 ; value of annual 
production, $150,000. This is the only mill in the city that 
makes a specialty of the j^roduction of oatmeal. They grind 
r,200 bushels of oats and corn per day ; run night and day with 
a double set of hands ; and still the demand keeps ahead of the 
supply. 

A. FISHER'S FLOUR AND FEED MILL — 20 and 22 

S. Desplaines street — was established in 1868; capital invested, 
$20,000 ; number of employes, 8 ; weekly pay-roll, $100 ; value of 
annual production, $?5,000. Makes a specialty of grinding feed. 



COFFEE AND SPICE MILLS. 

PHCENIX MILLS — KxowLES, Cloyes & Co. — 29 and 31 

River street — were established in 1855 — the pioneer mills of the 
kind in the city ; capital invested at present, $100,000 ; number 
of employes, 30 ; monthly pay-roll, $3,500 ; value of annual pro- 
duction, $250,000. Roasting and grinding coffees and grinding 
spices is the specialty. The firm were burned out in the great 
fire, in the same location, and started the business again in a few 
days after in temporary quarters. Their present building is of 
brick, four stories and basement in height, 40x100 feet in size. 

GROCERS MILLS — Speague, War]s-er & Co., Proprietors 
— H. M. Raksom, Superintendent — 222 East Kinzie street — 
were established in May, 1873 ; capital invested, $20,000 ; number- 
of employes, 17; monthly pay-roll, $2,000; value of annual pro- 
duction, $120,000. Ground and roasted coffee, ground spices, 
mustard, etc., a specialty. Salesroom, 53 and 55 Michigan street. 



MUSTARD MANUFACTORIES. 

THE MUSTARD MILL of Heis-ry Wichert— 87 and 89 
West Lake street — established in 1871; capital invested, $5,000; 
employs 5 hands, with a monthly pay-roll, of $200 ; production, 
500 gross, valued at $10,000 per year. Manufiictures French and 
wine mustard and olive oils. 



170 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

PREMIUM MUSTARD FACTORY — Dierking & Ohij^e- 
SORGE, Proprietors — 50 Second street — was established in 1869 ; 
capital invested, $6,000; employ 3 hands, with a monthly pay- 
roll 01 $175 ; value of annual production, $10,000. Manufacture 
French and German mustard. Sell entirely to the trade. 



BARREL AND (]ASK MANUFACTORIES. 

Most of the Brewers and Distillers m the city manufacture 
their own cooperage ; the coopers devoted to this business exclu- 
sively do not therefore represent the entire manufacture. 

THE COOPER SHOP AND STAVE YARD of F. E. Jojs-es 
(successor to Joxes & Chapik) — corner of Sixteenth street and 
Wontworth avenue — was established in 1860; capital invested, 
^100,000; number of employes, 90; monthly pay-roll, $5,000; 
value of annual production and sales, $525,000. Manufactures 
flour barrels, pork and lard tierces, staves, heading and provision 
cooperage ;• buy stock largely in Michigan and Indiana. The 
above investment does not include the real estate. Mr. Jones 
also runs an extensive cooper shop at McKean, 111., where he 
employs 50 hands. 

HEM AN FOSTER, Manufacturer of Cooperage — office, 17 
Board of Trade Building — factory, corner Hawthorne avenue 
and North Branch street — established the business in 1862; 
capital invested, $25,000 ; number of employes, 50 ; weekly pay- 
roll, about $800; annual production, 25,000 packages, value, 
$50,000. Manufactures specially whisky barrels and provision 
cooperage. Was burned out in the same location in the great 
fire, and rebuilt at once, and inside of two months was filling 
orders again. 

THE COMET STAVE AND BARREL FACTORY — R. 
M. FiNKEY, Superintendent — near Clybourne place bridge — was 
established in 1863 ; capital invested, $20,000 ; number of em- 
ployes, 32 ; weekly pay-roll, $450 ; annual production, 28,000 
barrels, value, $60,000. Manufactures whisky barrels and pro- 
vision cooperage. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 171 

WEBER & EISSNER, Manufacturers of Cooperage — 221, 

223 and 287 to 295 West Kinzie street — established the business 
in 1868; capital invested, $30,000 ; monthly pay-roll, $850; value 
of annual production, $75,000. Manufacture all kinds of whisky, 
flour and all other barrels. 

THE COOPERAGE MANUFACTORY of J. G. Stephe>5^s 

W. H. Stephens, Superintendent — corner oi Seventeenth and 

Arnold streets— was established in 1862 ; capital invested, $10,000 ; 
number of employes, 20 ; weekly pay-roll, $400 ; annual produc- 
tion, 20,000 barrels, value, $35,000. Manufactures tight and slack 
hogsheads, lard tierces, pork barrels, barrel and box straps, etc. 



TOBACCO AND CIGAR MANUFACTORIES. 

SPAULDING & MERRICK'S TOBACCO MANUFAC- 
TORY 9, 11, 13 and 15 River street — was established in 1864 ; 

capital invested, $150,000 ; number of employes, 175 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $1,500; annual production, 2,194,550 pounds ; value, $1,250,- 
000. Manufacture, as a specialty, fine-cut chewing and smoking 
tobacco. Their stock comes principally from Kentucky, of which 
they use 2,000 hogsheads a year. This is the largest establishment 
of the kind in the city. They paid a Government tax, for the first 
six months of the present year, of $219,455. Were burned out in 
same location, in the great fire, but commenced to rebuild imme- 
diately after. Their present building, of brick, three stories and 
basement, with a front on River street of 166 feet, was erected, 
and the works started, in just 72 days after the fire. They claim 
to have blown the first steam whistle m the burnt district. 

EUREKA TOBACCO WORKS — Beck & Wirth, Proprie- 
tors — 22 and 24 South Water street — established in 1855; em- 
ploy 80 to 90 hands ; monthly pay-roll, $2,000 ; production, 90,000 
to 100,000 pounds of tobacco per month. 1,080,000 to 1,200,000 
pounds per year. Pay a Government tax of $200,000 per year. 
Manufacture smoking and chewing tobacco and snuff — best brand 
"Eureka" chewing. The factory is located at 392 and 394 
North Clark, corner of Maple street — a brick building, 50x150 
feet, four stories high. Was burned out m the great fire, and 



172 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

rebuilt at once, among the first, if not the first brick building 
erected on the North Side after the fire. They also have a large 
salesroom and ofiice on South Water street, corner of Michigan 
avenue, where their sales amount to $700,000 per annum. 

CHICAGO AND LAKE SHORE TOBACCO WORKS — 
Heartt, Watt & Co. — 153 Michigan avenue — was established 
in 1872; employ 50 hands; monthly pay-roll, $1,200; annual 
production, 450,000 pounds; value, $175,000. Manufacture best 
qualities of smoking and chewing tobaccos. Their business is 
increasing rapidly. Occupy a commodious brick building with 
complete works. 

G. WAGENFUEHR'S CIGAR MANUFACTORY — 191 

Lake street — was established in 1867; capital invested, $15,000; 
number of employes, 40 ; monthly pay-roll, $2,000 ; annual pro- 
duction, 1,300,000 cigars, valued at $50,000. Manufactures as a 
specialty the " Standai'd Cigar " ; obtains his stock principally 
from New York, and sells mostly to dealers in the city. Burned 
out at 152 Lake street, in the great fire, and started on the 20th 
following at 249 West Twelfth street. 

C. F. MAURER'S CIGAR FACTORY — 187 South Clark 
street — was established in 18G6 ; capital invested, $15,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 25; weekly pay-roll, $225; annual production, 
720,000 cigars, valued at $3G,000. Manufactures, as a specialty, 
" Our Club House" cigars ; uses only the best stocks, and makes 
the best quality of goods. Burned out at 134 Clark street, in the 
great fire, and resumed business immediately after. 

WM. KOCH'S CIGAR MANUFACTORY— 62 North Hal- 

sted street — was established in 1870; capital invested, $5,000; 
number of employes, 10 ; weekly pay-roll, $130 ; annual produc- 
tion, 720,000 cigars, valued at $25,000. Manufactures all the 
current brands ; obtains stock mostly from Baltimore, and sells 
largely to country dealers. 

HOBART, DWELLE & CO.'S TOBACCO MANUFAC- 
TORY — Jas. Dwelle, Superintendent — 715 to 721 Indiana 
avenue — established m 1872; capital invested, $75,000 ; number 
of employes, 100; weekly pay-roll, $500; production, 600,000 



MAlfUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 173 

pounds of tobacco, value, $300,000. Manufacture, as a specialty, 
fine-cut chewing, and all styles of smoking tobacco. Sell to the 
jobbing ti'ade only. Among their favorite brands of chewing are 
"2:17," "Big Indian," "Dew Drop," "Sweet Home," etc. The 
Smoking bra-nds are " A & P," '" Atlantic," " Champion," and "A 
No. 1." 

BAERY & VANVLIET'S CiaAR MANUFACTORY — 

83 West Madison street — was established in 1864 ; capital in- 
vested, about $7,000 ; number of employes, 10 ; weekly pay-roll, 
$125 ; annual production, 300,000 cigars, valued at $13,000. 
They manufacture principally " Admiral," " New Chicago," and 
" Young America." Their stock comes mostly from New York 
and Connecticut. 

THE CIGAR MANUFACTORY of Miller Brothers — 
290 State street — was established in 1871 ; capital invested, about 
$3,000; number of employes, 15; weekly pay-roll, $200; annual 
production, 360,000 cigars, valued at $15,000. Have a case of 
cigars in the grand Exposition. 

R. W. TANSILL & CO., Manufacturers of Cigars, at 29 and 
31 Wabash avenue, employ 75 hands, and probably do quite a 
large business, but decline to give any more definite information. 
They are represented in the Exposition by a full line of their 
manufacture. 

THE CIGAR MANUFACTORY of Baum Bros. — 253 

East Randolph street — was established in 1861 ; capital invested, 
$10,000 ; number of employes, 13 ; weekly pay-roll, $160 ; annual 
production, 1,000,000 cigars; value, $45,000. Manufacture only 
first-class goods ; among them the "' Original " cigar, which has 
attained a wide popularity. Trade largely with country dealers. 

THE CIGAR MANUFACTORY of Laudekbach & 

Heii^ze — 165 Eighteenth street — was established in 1870; 
capital invested, about $5,000 ; employ 6 hands ; weekly pay-roll, 
$100 ; value of annual production, $25,000. 

CIGAR MANUFACTORY of Adam Brener — Southeast 
corner Clark and South Water streets — was established in 1860; 
capital invested, $3,000 ; number of employes, 8 ; weekly pay-roll, 



174 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

about 1125 ; annual production, 250,000 cigars ; value, $12,500. 
Manufacture as a specialty the following brands : " Pears and 
Cherries," "Primera,'' " O. K." and "La Corona." Was burned 
out in the greai tire, at No. 7 Rush street, commenced business, 
again soon after on the West Side. 

C. F. NUSSBAUMER'S CIGAR MANUFACTORY — 51 
North Clark street — was established in 1873; capital invested, 
$3,000 ; number of employes, about 7 ; weekly pay-roll, $100 ; 
annual production, 240,000 cigars, valued at $12,000. Manufac- 
tures various brands, mostly for the jobbing trade. 

THE CIGAR MANUFACTORY of Chas. Hene — 197 
West Madison street — was established in 1866; capital invested, 
$3,000 ; employs 7 hands ; weekly pay-roll, about $100 ; annual 
production, 200,000 cigars; value, $10,000. Manufactures '' Long 
Nines" and "Iron Cross" .cigars; also dealer in foreign and 
domestic cigars. 

FRED BECHER, Manufacturer of Cigars— at 87 North 
Wells street — established the business in 1866; capital invested, 
$7,000; employs 7 hands; weekly pay-roll, about $100; annual 
production, about 140,000 cigars; value, $7,000. Manufactures 
the "Legal Tender" and the "Silver Lake" cigars. His trade is 
largely with city dealers. 



ORNAMENTAL GLASS WORKS. 

GEO. A. MISCH & BRO., Manufacturers of Painted and 
Ornamental Glass — 217 E. Washington street — established the 
business in 1860; capital invested, $30,000; number of employes, 
about 30; weekly pay-roll, $350 to $500; value of annual pro- 
duction, $100,000. Messrs. Misch & Bro. are among the pio- 
neers in this branch of industry in Chicago. The name of the 
firm has long been a guaranty for the most elegant and beautiful 
work of the art. They were burned out in the great conflagra- 
tion on Calhoun place, and started immediately after the tire in 
temporary quarters, removing to their present location in July, 
1872. They furnished the ornamental glass work for the tomb 
of Henry M. Keep, Watertown, New York; the First and Union 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 175 

Park Cougregational Churches, Unity Church, Grace M. E. 
Church, and Grace Episcopal Church, among many others that 
might be mentioned. 

STAINED GLASS MANUFACTORY of Otto Jevne & 
(Jo. — 224 and 226 E. Washington street — was established in 
1854; capital invested, $10,000; number of employes, 20; weekly 
pay-roll, 1420 ; value of annual production, $35,000. This firm 
located at their present quarters soon after the great fire, and 
their business has steadily increased. Mr. Jevne is a thorough 
artist himself, and his taste and skill insures great beauty of 
design and excellence of execution for every piece of work he 
undertakes. Among the churches furnished with stained glass 
by this firm, may be mentioned the Church of the Messiah 
(Rev. Laird Collier's), also the fresco painting for the Oriental 
Masonic Lodge ; Wilson Sewing Machine store ; Academy of 
Music; Cleveland Masonic Lodge, etc. The establishment is 
represented in the grand Exposition by a Biblical composition in 
stained glass, representing the " Adoration of the Angels," 12x5 
feet in size, a most beautiful work of art. 

THE ORNAMENTAL GLASS WORKS of James Berry 
& Co. — 85 Jackson street — were established in 1869; capital 
invested, 15,000 ; number of employes, 11 ; weekly pay-roll, 1240 ; 
value of annual production, $40,000 to $50,000. Manufacture 
ground, cut, iind embossed glass. Were formerly at 23 North 
Jefferson street; opened at present location August 1st. Have 
furnished ornamental glass for the Grand Pacific, Tremont and 
Palmer houses, Ashland block, etc. Are represented in ohe grand 
Exposition. 

^Y. H. WELLS & BRO.'S STAINED GLASS MANUFAC- 
TORY — 48 and 50 Franklin street — was established in 1870; 
capital invested, $10,000 ; number of employes, 40 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $550 ; value of annual production, $75,000. The principal 
manufactory of stained glass for churches, of this firm, is at 209 
Superior street. They also have a large establishment at 48 and 
50 Franklin street. Their work is of the finest kind, and can be 
seen in many of the best buildings of rebuilt Chicago — Grand 



176 MAXUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

Pacific Hotel, Sherman House, W. U. Telegraph office, Board of 
Trade building, Bank of Montreal, Times, Tribune, and Journal 
offices, etc. 



WILLOW WARE MANUFACTORIES. 

GEO. J. SCHMIDT & BROS.' WILLOW WARE WORKS, 

246 State street, were established in 1869 ; capital invested, about 
$8,000 ; number of employes, 10 ; weekly pay-roll, 1100 ; value of 
annual production, 115,000. Manufacture willow chairs, cribs, 
baskets of all descriptions, and various articles of use and orna- 
ment. Obtain the material principally from Kentucky; import 
some from Germany, on which they pay a tariff of 35 per cent. 
Are represented by a full line of Avillow furniture in the Ex- 
position. 

WM. POTTLE, Manufacturer of Willow Ware — 235 West 

Madison street — established the business in 1861; capital in- 
vested, $5,000; employs 5 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of about 
$75; value of annual production, $15,000. Manufactures a full 
line of willow furniture of every description. Gets his stock 
principally from Kentucky, importing some from Germany. Is 
represented in the Exposition by a full line of his manufacture. 

THE WILLOW WARE MANUFACTORY of A. Gill — 

856 State street — was established in 1863 ; capital invested, about 
$2,000 ; employs 5 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of about $300 ; 
annual production, $8,000. Manufactures all styles of willow 
ware — work stands, sewing chairs, rockers, etc. His stock 
comes principally from New York and Cincinnati, for which he 
pays 10 cents per pound. 

JOHN LEHMAN, Willow Ware Manufacturer— 313 State 
street — established the business in 1862; capital invested, about 
$5,000; employs 5 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of about S25Q; 
value of annual production, about $7,000. Was burned out in 
the great fire, and started again in about four weeks; was doing 
a much larger business previous to that event. Stock comes 
from Kentucky and Germany. 

The Willow-ware manufacturers all complain of the difficulty 
of procuriug stock. They say if farmers in this State would cul- 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 177 

tivate a few acres of basket willow, they would make more money 
than from a whole field of wlieat; think there would be no diffi- 
culty in raising excellent Avillow for manufacturing purposes. 



SAIL LOFTS. 

GILBERT HUBBARD & CO.— Sail Loft — 224 to 230 
South Water street ; established the business in 1849 ; present 
capital invested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 40 ; weekly pa}-- 
roll, $500 ; value of annual production, $150,000. Manufacture 
sails, covers, tarpaulins, tents, awnings, and everything made of 
canvas. Also flags, etc. They are also extensive dealers in 
cordage, twines and ship chandlery goods. This is one of the 
pioneer establishments of Chicago in this line. They were 
burned out of course, but reopened at once after the fire. 

G. F. FOSTER SON & McFARREN'S SAIL LOFT — No. 
4 Market, corner of Lake and South Water streets ; was estab- 
lished in July, 1837, over thirty-six years ago, by Geo. F. Foster; 
they employ 30 to 35 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of $2,000 to 
$2,500 ; value of annual production, $75,000. Manufacture sails, 
tents, awnings, flags, covers, regalias, etc. Also jobbers in cord- 
age, twines, etc. This is the oldest house in the city in this line, 
and there are few, probably, in any line of business, that dates 
farther back than this. The firm is represented in the Grand 
Exposition by a full line of cordage, twines, ship chandler}^, flags, 
tents, hemp fibre, etc. 

MURRAY & BAKER, Manufacturers of Awnings, etc.— 
96 to 100 South Desplaines street — established the business in 
1869 ; capital invested, $5,000 ; number of employes, 11 ; monthly 
pay-roll, $600; value of annual production, $25,000. Manufac- 
ture awnings and black oil-cloth, waterproof covers, etc. ; one of 
the largest establishments of the kind in the Northwest. The 
establishment is represented in the Exposition by a full lino of 
its manufactures. 

HALL & BROS., Manufacturers of Awnings, Tents, etc.— 
18 South Halsted street; established the business in 1868; capi- 
tal invested, $3,000 ; employ 5 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of 
12 



178 MANUFACTUKES OF CHrCAGO. 

$250; value of annual production, $12,000. Manufacture the 
excelsior waterproof horse and wagon covers, as a specialty ; also 
awnings for private residence and office windows, waterproof 
coats and overalls, etc. Are represented in the Exposition by 
articles of their manufacture. 

PUEINTON & SCRANTON — Sail Loft — 270 and 272 
South Water street — established in 1851; they employ 25 hands, 
with a weekly pay-roll of $400; value of annual production, 
150,000. Manufacture sails, tents, awnings, betts and wagon 
covers ; also flags, banners and hammocks. 

OLSON & CO. — Sail Loft— 254 and 256 South Water 
street — was established in 1867; capital invested, $3,000; num- 
ber of employes, 8; weekly pay-roll, $150; value of annual pro- 
duction, $15,000. Manufacture tents, flags, sails, wagon and horse 
covers, etc. 



PAPER-BOX MANUFACTORIES. 

D. P. BARRETT & CO., Paper-Box Manufacturers — 184 
and 186 East Monroe street — established the business in 1866; 
capital invested, $15,000; number of employes, 45; weekly pay- 
roll, $350 ; value of annual production, about $60,000. Manu- 
facture all kinds of fine paper boxes, all styles and prices. One of 
their specialties is the manufacture of fancy paper frames and 
mats for small pictures. They also manufacture, mount, stretch 
and varnish all kinds of drawings, chromos and business cards. 
This firm was burned out in the great conflagration, and re-estab- 
lished the business at 108 to 114 North Desplaines street, where 
they were again burned out in February, 1873, and now they are 
again established at the above number. They are represented in 
the grand Exposition by a full line of their manufacture — paper 
boxes, passepartouts and mats. 

RITCHIE & DUCK, Manufacturers of Paper Boxes— 154 
and 155 Michigan avenue — established the business in 1866; 
capital invested, $10,000 ; number of employes, 60 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $400 to $450 ; value of annual production, $60,000. Manu- 
facture all kinds of wood and paper boxes. They make a specialty 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 1?9 

of wooden shoe and dry goods boxes, for shelf goods, the demand 
for which they find constantly increasing. These boxes are light, 
ornamental and durable, and bid fair to supersede any other kind. 
The factory is run by steam power, and the capacity of the pro- 
prietors for filling orders is unlimited. Messrs. Eitchie & Duck 
were burned out in the great conflagration, at 88 Michigan 
avenue, and resumed business at 413 West Van Buren street, 
October 22, 1871, having erected a building in the meantime. 
On the 9th of October, 1872, the first anniversary of the great 
fire, they took possession of their present ample and commodious 
quarters — a four story and basement brick building. 

J. ARNOLD, PAPER BOX MANUFACTURER— 135 

North Oakley street — established the business in 1870; capital 
invested, $3,000 ; number of employes, 12 ; weekly pay-roll, $100 ; 
value of annual production, 115,000. Manufactures all styles of 
paper boxes — makes a specialty of " bandboxes." Also, manu- 
factures largely, mounted, stretched and varnished oyster cards. 

I. J. VANSANDS PAPER BOX MANUFACTURER - 
42 and 44 South Clinton, corner of Washington street — estab- 
lished the business in 1871 ; capital invested, $3,500; number of 
employes, 25 ; weekly pay-roll, 1225 ; value of annual production, 
$20,000. Manufactures all kinds of paper boxes for mercan- 
tile purposes, perfumery, soap, shelf and shoe boxes, pigeon-holes 
and sample cases, and all kinds of small work. 

HENRY SCHULTZ, Paper Box Manufacturer — 51 State 
street — established the business in 1858; capital invested, 
$3,000 ; number of employes, 25 ; weekly pay-roll, $200 ; value 
of annual production, $25,000. Manufactures all kinds of paper 
boxes for mercantile use ; makes a specialty of shoe boxes. Mr. 
ScHULTZ is the oldest manufacturer of paper boxes in the city, 
commencing in a small way in 1858. By economy and steady 
industry the business grew and prospered, and at the time of the 
great fire he was employing a large force with a trade for all he 
could manufacture. After the fire he erected a temporary build- 
ing on Superior street, the first building erected on the North 
Side, where he carried on the manufacture until he took posses- 
sion of his present quarters, where he will soon make up for the 
terrible losses in the great fire. 



180 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



LIME WORKS. 

That the production of lime has been largely increased since 
the great fire is not strange. There has been an unusual demand, 
and the production has grown correspondingly. That is one of the 
necessary ingredients in building that Chicago produces within 
her own limits to any extent required. Immense beds of lime- 
rock crop out both in the northwest and southwest portions of 
the city. These deposits of limestone are also in great demand 
by, and are very convenient to, the blast furnaces, by which large 
quantities of the limestone are used as a flux. 

CHICAGO UNION LIME WORKS — F. E. Spooler, 
Agent — office, 153 South Market street — were established in 
1859; capital invested, 1170,000; number of employes, 200; 
weekly pay-roll, $2,000; annual production, 200,000 barrels of. 
lime, valued at $210,000. The works are located on Nineteenth 
street, west of Ashland avenue, covering 13-J- acres of ground ; 
stone quarried on the ground. There are nine kilns, capable of 
producing 1,300 barrels of lime per day. These are probably the 
most extensive works of the kind in the United States. 

THE LIME WORKS of H.Rice & Co. — Grand avenue, 
near Western avenue — were established in 1870; capital in- 
vested, 110,000; number of employes, 40; monthly pay-roll, 
13,000; annual production, 50,000 barrels of lime, and 1,800 
cords of rubble stone, valued at 160,000. Two immense kilns 
are used, and the stone is quarried on the ground. Manufacture 
lime and quarry rubble stone. 

J. G. BLUNT'S LIME WORKS — Western avenue and 
Fourth street — were established in 1869; capital invested, 
$15,000; number of employes, 24; monthly pay-roll, $1,200; 
annual production, 40,000 barrels of lime, value, $30,000. Manu- 
factures lime exclusively ; quarries the stone on the ground. 

ILLINOIS STONE, LIME AND BORING COMPANY — 

Grand, near Western avenue — John C. Evans, President; E. 
C. Evans, Secretary; W. H. Giles, Superintendent — was estab- 
lished in 1807 ; capital invested, $36,000 ; number of employes, 



MAN^UFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 181 

40 ; annual production, 56,000 barrels of lime and 300 cords of 
rubble stone, valued at about 155,000. Manufacture lime and 
quarry stone. 

J.W.WILLIAMS' LIME WORKS — situated on Harl)iiie 
street, between Wood and Lincoln — were established in 1801; 
employs 20 men, with a monthly pay-roll of $1,400. Declines to 
give any further information. 

THE LIME WORKS of Spencer & Co. — 71 Hawthorne 
avenue — were established in 1872; capital invested, about 13,000 ; 
employ 8 men ; weekly pay-roll, 1150 ; annual production, 35,000 
barrels of lime, valued at 128,000. Get their stone from the 
quarries near the artesian wells — a Chicago product. 

STEARNvS & CO., extensive Lime Burners in Bridgeport, de- 
cline to give any facts in reference to their Works, but intimate 
that they do more than any of their neighbors. 



TANNERIES. 

The Leather manufacture is fast growing to be a heavy item 
in the account of the industrial interests of Chicago, the annual 
production running into the millions. 

THE TANNERY OF WALKER, OAKLEY & CO. was 

•established in 1868 ; capital invested, 8300,000 ; number of em- 
plo.yes, 145 ; weekly pay-roll, $1,800 ; value of annual production, 
$800,000. Manufacture, as a specialty, calf, kip and upper 
leather. Also manufacture card leather and counter, inner sole, 
and rough leather. The works occupy two blocks on Elston 
avenue, between Division and Blackhawk streets. They also 
have an extensive tannery at Holland, Michigan. Office and 
salesroom, 239 Lake street. Are represented in the Grand Expo- 
sition by a full line of their manufacture. 

UNION HIDE AND LEATHER CO.— J. L. Chapman, 
President; B. H. Campbell, Vice President; H. N. Hibbard, 
Secretary and Treasurer; J. Hayes, Superintendent — Office, 15 
and 17 Market street — was established in 1865 ; capital invested. 



[82 MAIfUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

1350,000 ; number of employes, 150 ; weekly pay-roll, 12,000 ; an- 
nual production, 60,000 hides and skins; value, $575,000. The 
Company manufacture, as a specialty, upper and whole kips, collar, 
belt and rough leather. The tannery occupies six acres on Elston 
avenue, south of Division street. Mr. Hayes, the Superintendent 
of the manufacturing department, is one of the oldest and most 
experienced tanners in the city, and has been mainly instrumental 
in giving to Chicago leather its high popularity. Are represented 
in the Exposition by a full line of their manufacture. 

ELIEL, DANZIGER & CO.'S TAXNERY— Office, 247 

East Lake street — was established in 1861; present capital in- 
vested, $150,000; employs 85 hands; weekly paj^-roll, $1,100; 
annual production, 30,000 calf and kip, 25,000 sides, upper, har- 
ness, etc.; value, $300,000. Manufacture calf, kip, upper, har- 
ness, bridle and collar leather. Mr. Eliel was burned out in the 
same place, corner of Hawthorne avenue and North Branch 
street, in the great fire, and commenced rebuilding the present 
works on the first of January following. The main building is 
50x150 feet in size, with a wing, 80x36 feet, each four stories 
high, the first story being of brick, the others frame. The works 
are perfect in every department, and supplied with all the latest 
labor-saving machinery, with ample room for storage of bark, 
fuel, etc. The buildings are protected by a powerful stationary 
steam fire pump that will throw water to every part of them. 
John Dunnebecke is Superintendent of the manufacturing de- 
partment. 

C. CASSLEMAN'S TAjST^^ERY — Elston avenue, between 
Sloan and Bradley streets — was established in 1858; capital in- 
vested, $50,000 ; number of employes, 35 ; weekly pay-roll, $500 ; 
value of annual production, $150,000. Make a specialty of tan- 
ning sheep pelts and buffalo skins. 

THE HIDE AND LEATHER CO. OF CHICAGO — L. 
Richards, Superintendent — Office, 55 Clark street — was estab- 
lished in 1849; capital invested, $100,000; number of employes,. 
30 ; monthly pay-roll, $1,800 ; value of annual production, 
$200,000. Manufacture, as a specialty, boot and harness leather. 
The Company were burned out in the great fire, on South \T'ell& 



MANUEACTUKES OF CHICAGO. 183 

street, at 572 to 580, and subsequently started again on Elston 
road. This is the oldest establishment of the kind in the city, 
and is the successor to the old '' Chicago Hide and Leather Co.'' 
of which Walter S. Gurnee was formerly president. The works 
at present are on the North Branch, near Halsted street bridge. 

J. D. MAKSH ALL'S TANNERY — Chas. Nichols, Super- 
intendent — 74 to 84 Hawthorne avenue — was established in 18G6 ; 
capital invested, $100,000 ; number of employes, 30 ; weekly pay- 
roll, SoOO ; annual production, 50,000 sides of sole leather ; value, 
$200,000. Manufactures exclusively sole leather. Was burned 
out on the same site in the great fire. Erected the present build- 
ings — one frame, 50x140; another, 25x140; and a brick, 30x40 
— and had them all in running order by the spring of 1872. Mr. 
Marshall is the oldest manuf\icturer in the city, having been 
originally of the firm of Gray, Marshall & Co. in 1850. 

THE TANNERY of Populorum & Bro.— Fleetwood street, 
near North avenue — was established in 1858; capital invested, 
153,000 ; number of employes, 40 ; weekly pay-roll, $600 ; value 
of annual production, $200,000. Manufacture as a specialty, 
upper leather and whole kip. 

L. A. PFEIFER & CO.'S TANNERY — corner of Twenty- 
fourth and Butler streets — was established in 1865; number of 
employes, 30 ; weekly pay-roll, $500 ; annual production, 28,000 
sides, value, $150,000. Manufacture principally upper, kips and 
harness leather. 

UPHAM & McGLAUCHLAN'S TANNERY— Office and 
Salesroom, 38 Fifth avenue — was established in 1870; capital 
invested, $40,000 ; number of employes, 15 ; weekly pay-roll, about 
$175 ; value of annual production, $50,000. Manufacture princi- 
pally upper, kip and harness leather. The works are situated on 
Wendell street, near Clyboume avenue, and occupy 132x230 feet 
of grounds and buildings. 

D. S. EISENDRATH'S TANNERY— North Branch, foot 
of Fifth street — was established in 1867 ; capital invested, $5,000 ; 
employs 4 hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $75 ; and turns out 
about $20,000 worth of tanned sheep skins for gloves, mittens, etc. 



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184 MA.NUJbACTL'KES OF CHICAGO. 



PAPER MANUFACTORIES. 

.THE J. BKADNER SMITH PULP AND PAPER CO.— 
J. Bradis^er Smith, P*«sident — office and salesroom, 110 and 
112 East Madison street — was established in 1872 ; capital stock, 
$300,000; number of employes, 40; monthly pay-roll, $1,500; 
production, 4 tons of news paper per day, value $900; value of 
annual production, about $328,000. The paper mill is located on 
the North Side, near the foot of Michigan street, where the Com- 
pany have built a large brick building, ample and commodious, 
for the business. They have demonstrated the fact that the 
manufacture of paper can be carried on in this city as profitably 
as elsewhere. 

i^' J. W. BUTLER & CO., Manufacturers of Paper — 0:i\f. But- 
4 ijER a nd W. H. Beach, Superintendents — 184 and 186 East 
Monroe street — established the business in 184G; capital in- 
vested, $350,000 ; number of employes, 150 ; weekly pay-roll, 
about $1,000; annual production, 25,000 tons of print paper, 
value, $450,000. The mills are located at Lockport, 111., and 
South Bend, Ind. Manufacture print and book paper, wrapping- 
paper and straw-board. Messrs. Butler & Co. are among the 
oldest manufacturers and dealers m the city. 



GLUE MANUFACTORY. 

i^" THE WAHL BROS. CHICAGO GLUE WORKS — Thirty- 
first street and South Branch — were established in 1854 ; employ 
200 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of $7,000 ; value of annual 
production, $600,000. Manufacture glue, neat's-foot oil and fer- 
tilizer — the only establishment in the West that manufactures 
neat's-foot oil. This establishment was founded by the Messrs. 
Wahl Bros, in 1854, and by their enterprise and well directed 
energy, in the face of many obstacles, has grown to its present 
immense proportions. The Works are now among the most exten- 
sive manufacturing establishments of the city, covering an area 
ot eight acres of ground, giving employment to 200 workmen, 
and producing annually over lialf a million dollars of wealth from 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 185 

the most unpromising materials. The Messrs. Wahl have not 
been slow to adopt every improvement in the process of their 
manufacture, that promised to render it less objectionable, and 
in this respect they have succeeded beyond their most sanguine 
expectations. They obtain their raw material from the Nortli- 
west, and their product is sold mainly in the East. During the 
past year they have erected a fine building on Franklin between 
Lake and Eandolph streets, and fitted up one of the most elegant 
and complete offices in the city. 



BRUSH MANUFACTORIES. 

GERTS, LUMBARD & CO., Manufacturers of Brushes — 
167 E. Madison street — established in 1850; capital invested, 
$60,000; number of employes, 45; weekly pay-roll, $600 ; value 
of annual production, 1150,000. Manufacture brushes of every 
description known to the trade. This is the oldest firm in tliis 
branch of manufacture in the Northwest, and their goods hold a 
high place in the market, among dealers. Their trade extends 
throughout the Northwest, West, and South. They were burned 
out at 211 Randolph street, in the great fire, but were running 
again in less than six Aveeks, at 200 W. Madison street, having 
purchased the site and erected a building for the factory in the 
meantime. 

CLARK & HILL, Manufacturers of Brushes — 100 E. Ran- 
dolph street — established the business in 1867; capital invested, 
$20,000 ; number of employes, 12 ; monthly pay-roll, $1,000 ; 
value of annual production, $125,000. Manufacture every de- 
scription of brushes. Were burned out in the great fire, at 53 
State street, and resumed business in temporary quarters imme- 
diately after. This firm has a factory also at Cleveland, Ohio, 
where they employ 250 hands. Are represented in the Exposi- 
tion by a full line of their manufacture. 



THE STAR PRINTING-INK WORKS — Merchant, 
Smith & Barnard, Proprietors — were established in 1870; 
capital invested, $10,000; employ three hands, and turn out 



186 MAXUFACTU*IES OF CHICAGO. 

$20,000 worth of inks per annum. Manufacture printing inks 
of all descriptions — book, job and newspaper inks — and of all 
colors and shades. This is the only establishment of the kind 
now running in the cit3^ 

BUTTON MANUFACTORY — A. Brockma]^-, Proprietor 
— 259 East Randolph street — was established in 1872; capital 
invested, 15,000; number of employes, 15; weekly pay-roll, 
1200; value of annual production, $15,000. Manufacture patent 
buttons of all kinds. This is a new manufacture, and the arti- 
cles are just being introduced to the public. It promises to be a 
success. 

OLIVER ADAMS, Publisher of School Records and Blanks 
— 105 Madison street — established the business in 1871 ; capital 
invested, $5,000 ; number of employes, 10 ; weekly pay-roll, about 
$200; value of annual production, $15,000. Publishes a new 
system of school and township records, and all kinds of school 
blanks. 

CHARLES MATHIE, Carpet Weaver — 33^ Blue Island 
avenue — established the business in 1870, on a capital of about 
$2,000 ; employs but two hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $50, 
and turns out about $5,000 worth of carpets. 

W. J. ELLINWOOD, Manufacturer of Clothes-Wringers — 
110 South Clark street — established the business in 1863; em- 
ploys 10 hands. Is the only manufacturer in the West of solid 
rubber rollers. He is also a dealer in field, garden and flower 
seeds, etc. All kinds of clothes-wringers repaired, and new por- 
tions furnished to order. 

D. P. SHAW, Manufacturer of Paper Balloons— 222 West 
Randolph street — established the business in 1868; capital in- 
vested, $5,000 ; employ but 2 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of 
$160 ; value of annual production, $25,000. This is the only 
manufactory of the kind in the city. Makes a specialty of the 
manufacture of paper balloons. 

WASTE-CLEANING WORKS — Merwin Sagar & Co., 
Proprietors — corner of Sloan street and Elston avenue — estab- 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 187 

lished in 1873 ; capital invested, $5,000 ; employ 5 hands, with a 
weekly pay-roll of about 175 ; value of annual production, $25,000. 
The business of these Works is the cleaning of cotton waste, 
obtained in large quantities from railways. 



PRESSED HAY. 

THE HAY-PRESSING ESTABLISHMENT of M. L. Fms- 
BiE — 419 Maxwell street — established in 185G ; capital invested, 
120,000 ; number of employes, 10 ; weekly pay-roll, about $150 ; 
annual production, 2,000 bales; value, average $10,000. The 
only establishment rf the kind in the city. 



CORK MANUFACTORIES. 

McCREADY, SMITH & ALLEN, Manufacturers of Corks 
— 283 and 285 S. Canal street — established the business in 1866 ; 
capital invested, $35,000; number of employes, 35; weekly pay~ 
roll, $390 ; value of annual production, $50,000. Manufacture 
machine-cut corks. Find a market throughout the Northwest. 

HENRY REDLICH, 377 North Clark street — Manufac- 
turer of Bungs, Corks, etc. — established the business in 1861; 
capital invested, $25,000 ; number of employes, 8 ; weekly pay- 
roll, $175; value of annual production, $20,000. Manufactures 
bungs, corks, plugs, etc.; makes a specialty of the manufacture of 
wooden faucets; also does a general turning business of small 
wares. 

WOODEN PUMP MANUFACTORY.— J. F. Temple & 
Sons, Proprietors — 376 to 390 South Canal street — was estab- 
lished in 1858 ; capital invested, $75,000 ; number of employes, 
30; monthly pay-roll, $1,500; annual production, 20,000 pumps ;, 
value, $100,000. This firm are among the pioneers in the manu- 
facture of wooden pumps for farm purposes. Their gross pro- 
duction from the first is about 150,000 pumps, which are in use 
throughout the Northwest. Their pumps have a high reputation 
among the farmers. They also manufacture large quantities of 



188 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

wooden water-pipe for aqueducts and various purposes. They 
were among the yictims of the great conflagration, and were 
among the very first of our manufacturers to rebuild and resume 
business. Eepresented in the Exposition by sample pumps and 
wood pipe. 

MOP-HEAD AND HANDLE MANUFACTOEY— Smith, 
Mason & Co., Proj^rietors — 347 and 349 Hlinois street — estab- 
lished in 1869 ; capital invested, 18,000 ; employ 6 hands, with a 
weekly pay-roll of about $100 ; value of annual production, 
1^50,000. Manufacture exclusively Taylor's Patent Mop-Head 
and Handle, and supply the trade throughout the Northwest. 

THE OIL-CUP MANUFACTORY of N. H. Dibble — 155 
Fifth avenue — was established in 1873 ; capital investerl, 13,000 ; 
number of employes, 5 ; monthly pay-roll, 1275 ; annual produc- 
tion, 1,480 dozen cups ; value, $20,000. Manufacture metal oil- 
cups for all kinds of machinery. Is represented in the Exposition 
by a full line of his manufacture. 

MACARONI MANUFACTORY — W. B. Hamilton & 
Co., Proprietors ; W. B. Hamilton, Suporiutt-udent — 312 and 
314 West Madison street — was established in 1866; capital 
invested, about $8,500; number of employes, 15, of whom 10 are 
girls ; monthly pay-roll, $600 ; annual production, about 33,000 
pounds macaroni and farina ; value, about $16,500. Manufacture 
exclusively macaroni, vermicelli and farina. This is the only 
factory of the kind in the West, and was established by the Chi- 
cago Farina and Macaroni Manufacturing Co., of whom the 
present proprietors are successors. 

UMBRELLA MANUFACTORY — Hirsh & Co., Proprie- 
tors — 133 State street — was established in 1870; employ 30 
hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $350 ; value of annual produc- 
tion, $200,000. Manufacture only umbrellas and parasols, and is 
the only manufactory of the kind in the city. Burned out in the 
great fire, at 31 State street, and resumed business in ten days at 
168 Twenty-second street ; returned to present quarters in March, 
1873. Are represented in the grand Exposition by a full line of 
umbrellas and parasols. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 189 



MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MANUFACTORIES. 

JOHN PRESTON, Manufacturer of Pianos— 259 East Ran- 
dolph street — established the business in 1852 ; capital invested, 
$5,000 ; employs five hands, with a weekly pay-roll of $125 ; 
annual production, about 20 pianos, and a large number of 
instruments repaired, valued at $10,000. Makes a specialty of 
manufacturing and repairing pianos. Is the oldest establishment 
of the kind in the city. 

NICHOLSON ORGAN MANUFACTORY — John G. 
Nicholson", Proprietor — 63 Indiana street — was established 
in 1871 ; capital invested, $10,000 ; employs 15 hands, with a 
weekly pay-roll of $247 ; value of annual production, $30,000. 
Manufactures exclusively the "Nicholson Cabinet Organs," 
which are pronounced equal, if not superior, to any made, in 
volume and sweetness of tone. The business promises to grow 
into an extensive and profitable one. 



MATCH MANUFACTORY — Swift, Couetney & Bee- 
cher Co., Proprietors; S. S. Bentok, Superintendent — office, 
45 Michigan avenue — was established in 1871; (is a branch of 
the Wilmington, Del., Manufactory, which has factories in Chi- 
cago, Westville, Conn., and Philadelphia,) capital invested in 
the Chicago branch, $30,000 ; employs 75 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of $275 ; annual production, 90,000 gross of matches, 
valued at $198,000. The factory is located at 162, 164 and 166 
Walsh street. 

THE JEWELRY CASE MANUFACTORY of Geo. akd 
Jno. Wagjn^er — 278 State street — was established in 1863; 
capital invested, about $2,000 ; employ 3 hands, with a weekly 
pay-roll of about $60; value of annual production, about $5,000. 
Manufacture jewelry cases, and sample cases of all kinds. 



190 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



WRITING FLUID MANUFACTORIES. 

THE SANFOKD MANUFACTURi:^G CO.— F. A. Red- 
INGTON, Secretary and Treasurer — 223 Fulton street — was estab- 
lished in Chicago in 1866; capital stock, $50,000; number of 
employes, 30 ; weekly pay-roll, $600 ; yalue of annual production, 
$80,000. Manufacture writing fluids, inks, mucilage and sealing 
wax. The Company were burned out in the great conflagration. 
Are represented in the great Exposition by a full line of their 
manufacture. 

CHICAGO CHEMICAL WOEI^S — Frank Snodgrass & 
Co., Proprietors — 163 East Kinzie street — were established in 
1861 ; capital invested, $10,000 ; number- of employes, 10 ; weekly 
pay-roll, $150 ; value of annual production, $50,000. Manufac- 
ture Cox's writing fluid, as a specialty. Also mucilage, flavoring 
extracts, perfumery, pomades, etc. 

ORCHESTRION MAXUFACTORY — Blessing Bros.— 
555 Xortli Wells street — was established in 1870. Messrs. Bles- 
sing Bros, do most of the work themselves, employing but one 
workman. They manufacture the cylinders of Orchestrions 
exclusively, and are the only manufacturers of such articles west 
of New York. The manufacture is a peculiar one, and requires 
peculiar skill and ingenuity. These cylinders once prepared, the 
instrument gives the measures of a favorite opera, with full 
orchestral accompaniment, with a power and harmony that is 
wonderful. They receive many orders for these cylinders from 
New York city. 



ADDITIONAL -FIRE APPARATUS. 

THE "NEW CHICAGO" FIRE EXTINGUISHER 
WORKS — R. M. Johnson, General Manager — 109 and 111 
West Lake street — were established in June, 1873; capital 
invested, $2,000 (to be increased to $250,000) ; number of em- 
ployes, 12 ; monthly pay-roll, $700 ; production first year is 
expected to be 200 extinguishers; value, $12,000. The "New 
Chicago " is a new institution just starting, with small capital, 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 191 

but the prospects are very flattering for a large business next 
year, requiring a large capital, which wealthy parties stand ready 
to put in. The Illinois Central Eailroad have ordered several of 
these " New Chicago " Extinguishers. The office is at 228 E. 
Lake street. 

J. W. NEWELL, LOCKSMITH — 93 Washington street — 

established the business in 1857 ; capital invested, |G,000 ; num- 
ber of employes, 8 ; weekly pay-roll, $175 ; value of annual pro- 
duction, $15,000. Manufactures all kinds of locks, keys, etc. 



ADDEIS^DA. 

The statistics of some of the prominent manufacturing estab- 
lishments were not received until the classes to which they 
belonged were in type and in the stereotypers' hands, and we 
therefore put them in here in the shape of "Addenda." 



FURNITURE MANUFACTORY. 

^' THE FIJENITUBE MANUFACTORY of A. L. Hale & 
Bro. — 10, 12, 14 and 16 North Canal street, was established in 
1854; present capital invested, $200,000; number of employes, 
150; weekly pay-roll, about 13,500; A-alue of annual production, 
$600,000. Manufactures every style of furniture — elegant par- 
lor and chamber sets, etc. They make a specialty of hotel and 
office work, having furnished, during the past year, among other 
hotels, the Sherman House, the new Briggs House; the Marine 
Hospital of this city, and the Custom House at St. Paul, Minn.; 
a large new hotel at Yankton, Dakotah, and another hotel in 
Salt Lake City; and several hotels of lesser note in this citv. 
During the same time they have done an immense business in 
the ordinary line of furnishing private mansions and selling to 
the trade. 

THE HALE BROS.' ESTABLISHMENT is decidedly a 
representative Chicago institution ; having been established while 
the great metropolis was still in its embryotic state, it has grown 



192 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

with its growth, until, like the city itself, it stands at the head of 
its class in the NortliAvest. And it is the men who have, by their 
enterprise, energy and honorable dealing, built up these gigantic 
manufacturing establishments, who have contributed so largely 
to build up the glory and reputation of Chicago. One of the 
main secrets of the success that has crowned the efforts of the 
Messrs. Hale Bros, is the invariable beauty and excellence of 
their work. They procure the very best materials and employ 
the most skillful and artistic workmen, and when the furniture of 
a large hotel is furnished it is all elegant, complete and in perfect 
harmony with the general design. A hotel proprietor in San 
Francisco or Portland, Oregon, may send his order by mail and 
be certain that he will receive just as perfect, elegant and appro- 
priate an outfit as if he were present himself to select the goods. 
It is such establishments as this that give force and point to our 
motto: '-'The Glory of Chicago — her Manufactories !" 

N. F. STONE & CO., Manufacturers of Saw Gummers, at 

05 and 67 South Clinton street — were established in 1858; they 
have $10,000 invested in the business, and employ 12 hands, with 
a weekly pay-roll of $150, and turn out about an annual value of 

$25,000. 



E^s^GRAYERS OK WOOD. 

BAKER & CO., ENGRAVEES — S. W. Fallis, Superin- 
tendent — Southwest corner of Clark and Monroe streets — estab- 
lished the business in 1857 ; have $10,000 invested, and employ 
an average of 25 hands; monthly- pay-roll, about $1,085; value 
of annual production, $25,000. Do all kinds of wood engraving, 
for illustrating books, magazines and papers ; also map engrav- 
ing, railway display bills, posters for shows, etc. Mr. Baker is 
one of the pioneers in the business. Aie represented in the 
Exposition by a number of fine specimens of their work. 

J. MANZ, ENGRAVER — 70 LaSalle street, corner of Ran- 
dolph — established the business in 1867 ; capital invested, $6,000 ; 
number of employes, 15 ; weekly pay-roll, $200 ; value of annual 
})roduction, $20,000. Do a general line of engraving on wood, 
for book illustrations, catalogues, railroad work and general joh 



MAKUFACTURE6 OF CJiliCAGO. 193 

work. Fine engraving a specialty. Was burned out in the great 
conflagration, in the Eeynolds block, corner of Madison and 
Dearborn streets. Started again, in three days after the fire, at 
165 West Madison street, where he remained until taking posses- 
sion of his present commodious quarters. Is represented in the 
Exposition by specimens of work. 



Among so many manufacturers it is not strange that a few 
were found who, probably from a misconception of the object and 
scope of the work, or some other reason, declined to give any 
information. Among the more prominent of such are the fol- 
lowing : 

JOHN DAVISON employs 20 hands in the CHICAGO 
OAKUM WORKS, the only establishment of the kind in the 
city — established in 1868 — but declines any further information. 

Among the Furniture Manufacturers who declined to give any 
information in reference to their business are A. DAVIDSON, 
employing two hands; CAHN i& BUSHMEYER; J.TARNOW; 
THE MEISSNER FURNITURE MANUFACTURING CO.; 
F. MEYER & CO., and BOESE BROS. ; all of them minor estab- 
lishments, but they would swell the aggregate number to 65 in 
this branch of indusrty. 

S. F. MORGAN & CO. employ 15 hands in the manufac- 
ture of Gloves and Mittens, but decline to give any further 
information. 

LYMAN BRIDGES, Manufacturer of Ready-made Houses, 
declined to give any information. 

FRANK STURGIS & CO. do a large business in the manu- 
facture of tin plate, tin ware, sheet iron and japanned ware, and 
some other specialties, but have reasons for declining to give any 
information. 

THE "PIONEER SOAP-MANUFACTURING CO.," nd 
one or two other soap makers, were found, who had conscienti -us 
scruples against letting the public know anything about their 
business. 

13 



194 MAXUFACTirRKS OF CHICAGO. 

SCHILLO, CEOSSMAN & SENN have an Iron Foundry on 
West Polk street, but do not wish to have the public know any- 
thing about their business. 

J. H. SMALL & CO., Manufacturers of Blank Books, have 
reiisons for preferring not to give any information in reference to 
their business. 

JAMES DALE, Manufacturer of Blank Books — 56 Fifth 
avenue — estabhshed the business in 1867; employs 15 hands, 
and turns out $30,000 worth of work. 

IRA A. HILL, Manufacturer of Light and Heavy Harness, 
129 Clinton street, employs 10 hands. 

DAi^IEL BARCLAY, the pioneer Show-Case Manufacturer, 
is still doing a good business, and employs 15 to 20 hands, but 
declines to give any further information. 

THE PRUSSING VINEGAR WORKS — probably the most 
extensive of the kind in the Northwest — ^decline to give any in- 
formation in reference to the business. 

-^GEO. H. BLISS & CO., Manufacturers of Telegraph Instru- 
ments and Supplies — Geo. H. Bliss, President ; E. B. Chandler, 
Vice-President — 41 Third avenue — established the business in 
1868 ; capital invested, $45,000 ; number of employes, 50, with 
a weekly pay-roll of 1800 ; value of annual production, $60,000 ; 
manufacture telegraph machinery and supplies, electrical appa- 
ratus, hotel annunciators, fire and burglar alarms, etc. Telegraph 
Instruments a specialty. This is the oldest manufactory of the 
kind in the city. It was established in 1868, but has undergone 
some changes of proprietorship. The Company, as now incorpo- 
rated, is composed of Geo. H. Bliss, President ; E. B. Chan^dler, 
Vice-President ; J. D. Haines, Secretary and Treasurer ; E. A. 
Hill, Electrician. The Company was burned out, in the great 
fire, at 171 South Water street, and reopened at once at 295 West 
Randolph street, where they were filling orders the day after the 
fire. The factory was started soon after at 195 West Madison 
street. They took possession of their present commodious (quar- 
ters on the 1st May, 1872. The Company does a large merchan- 
dising business in addition to their specialty as manufacturers. 
Tliey are represented in the great Exposition by a full line of 
their manufactures. 

•■■ The above sliould have appeared in its proper place, in the class of 
*' Manufactures in Metals other than Iron," but was not received in time. 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 



1<)5 



MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTFRES- SUMMARY. 



Total establisliments not included iu preceding' classes 138 

" capital invested $6,134,100 

" number of employes 14,980 

" amount of wages paid weekly $39,230 

" amount of wages paid monthly 163,605 

" aggregate wages paid per month 333,601 

" wages paid per year 4,003,312 

" value of production for the year ^ 19,168,000 

Comprising : 



Clothing manufactories 

Hat. cap and fur manufactories 

Ladies' hat and frame manufactories 

Neck-wear manufactories 

Cotton hatting manufactories 

Lace manufactories 

Bed and bedding mauufactories 

Bakeries 

Flour and feed mills 

Coffee and spice mills 

Mustard mills 

Macaroni manufactory 

Match manufactory 

Tobacco and cigar manufactories 

Sails, awnings, etc., mauufactories 

Paper manufactories 

Glue and neat's-foot oil manufactory 

Show-case manufactories. 

Billiard-table manufactories. 

Cooperage manufactories 

Lime works ... 

Ornamental glass works 

Willow ware manufactories 

Paper box manufactories 

Printing-ink manufactory 

Writing-ink manufactories 

Brush manufactories 

Cork, bung and faucets manufactories .. 

Hay-press works. 

Carpet weaver 

Mop-head and handle manufactory 

Paper balloon manufactory 

Waste-<^k'aning works 

Wringing-machine-roUer manufactory. .. 

Umbrella manufactory 

Ivory-tui'ning works... 

Button manufactory 

Oil-cup manufactory 

Open banner-pign manufactory 

Musical-instrument manufactories 

Jewelry-case manufactory. 



Capital. 



1,700,000 
247,000 

45,000 

•25,000 

48,000 
8,000 

14,600 
371,000 
495,000 
120,000 

11,000 
8,500 

30,000 
421,500 

64,000 
650,000 

31,000 

373.000 

185,000 

298,000 

55,000 

20,000 

34,500 

50,000 

20.000 

80,000 

60.000 

20,000 

1,000 

8,000 

5,000 

5,000 

5,000 

20,000 

5,000 

5,000 

3,000 

1,000 

16,000 

1,000 



Ko. 
Employes. 



9,306 

217 

300 

60 

43 

10 

34 

290 

165 

47 

8 

15 

75 

547 

124 

190 

200 

42 

215 

192 

372 

101 

23 

167 

30 

13 

57 

43 

10 

3 

6 

2 

5 

10 

30 

4 

15 

5 

6 

23 

8 



Monthly Annval 
Wages. , Prodvction. 



S150,916 

12,442 

9,100 

2,000 

1,842 

650 

2,340, 

19,350 

9,583, 

5.5001 

6551 

600 

1,192 

19.299 

S,060! 

4.5331 

7,000 

2,903! 

13,433 

11,700 

19.732 

7.410 

1,160! 

5,7421 

2,600 

850| 

3,742 

2,170 

500 

150 

300 

160 

250 

500 

1,520 

250 ; 

8661 

275 

433 

1,787' 

275i 



$7,160,000 

860,000 

300,000 

250,000 

187,000 

20,000 

73.000 

1,238,000 

1,225,000 

370,(1)0 

20,000 

16,500 

198.000 

2,614,-500 

337,000 

775,000 

600.000 

118,000 

825.000 

34:.,000 

4S8.000 

2<;o,ooo 

42.000 
180.000 
80,000 
70,000 
180,000 
70.0(i0 
oO.OOO 

5,000 
50,000 
25,000 
25,000 
10,000 
30,000 

6,000 
50,000 
20,000 

5,000 
45,000 

5,000 



Of the whole number of miscel'.i'ni'ous manufactures — 1^)8 
one were established previous to 1860. 



— twenty- 



South Chicago. 



A description of the manufacturing industries of Chicago 
would be hardly complete without including the principal manu- 
facturing establishments of the young but fast growing manu- 
facturing suburb of South Chicago, at the mouth of the Calumet 
river. We are indebted to Col. James H. Bowen for the follow- 
ing information relative to some of its leading industries. 

CHICAGO IRON AND STEEL WORKS —J. D. Decreet, 

General Manager — were established in 1873, with a capital of 
$50,000 ; they employ 30 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of $3,000, 
and will produce annually 1,000 tons of steel and tools valued at 
$300,000. The}' manufacture merchants' steel, and tools of vari- 
ous kinds, as a specialty. The Works are represented in the 
grand Exposition by samples of steel of their manufacture. 

THE NES SILICON ROLLING MILLS— J. W. Helmer, 

Superintendent — established in 1873 ; capital invested, $400,000. 
This establishment will employ 250 hands, with a monthly pay- 
roll of $25,000. They will manufacture the Nes Silicon steel 
rail for railroads. The Works will soon be ready for operation. 

SINCLAIR'S WOOLEN MILLS — L. W. Sinclair, Pro- 
prietor — were established in 1873, upon a capital investment of 
$100,000 ; they employ 75 operatives, with a monthly pay-roll of 
$4,000, and will turn out annually 750,000 yards of jeans, wortli 
$500,000. The mill has seven sets of woolen machinery, and will 
run upon jeans of several grades. 

REDFIELD, SARGENT & CO., Manufacturers of Mill 
Machinery — established the business in 1873; capital invested, 
$30,000; number of employes, 10; monthly pay-roll, $1,000; 
will turn out yearly a value of $30,000. Manufacture mill ma- 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 197 

chinery generally, and make a specialty of the Champion Smut 
Mill. Are represented in the grand Exposition by one of those 
machines. 

THE SOUTH CHICAGO MATCH WORKS— A. J. Griggs, 
Proprietor — were established in 1873 ; capital invested, $30,000. 
They employ 60 hands, with a monthly pay-roll of §2,000. They 
manufacture large qua.itities of friction matches. 

THE ILLINOIS STEAM FORGE CO.— E. P. Woodruff, 
Secretary — w^as removed to South Chicago in 1873. The capital 
invested is $75,000, and 40 hands are employed, with a monthly 
pay-roll of $3,000. Manufacture all grades of heavy forging. 
Railroad car axles and cross ties are made a specialty. 

KENT, BALDWIN & CO., Manufacturers of Woolen and 
Cotton Mill Machinery — established the business in 1872; capi- 
tal invested, $30,000 ; number of employes, 20 ; monthly pay-roll, 
$1,500; value of annual production, $175,000. Manufacture 
woolen and cotton mill machinery, of improved kind that is in 
demand, and furnished by them to all parts of the country. 

SOUTH CHICAGO PLANING MILL— A. S. Griggs & 
Co., Managers — was established in 1873, on an investment of 
$15,000. But five hands are at present employed, with a monthly 
pay-roll of $500. 



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A general summing up shows that tliere are in active opera- 
tion in the city, at the present time, over 730 manufacturing 
establishments, employing, in the aggregate, over 50,500 hands, 
and with an aggregate invested capital of about $50,000,000. 
The total amount paid to employes, for wages, during the year, 
is $28,740,962, and the total value of annual production is over 
$125,787,000 — nearly $130,000,000. An examination of the dates 
at which the present manufacturing industries were established 
will show that of the whole number — 730 — but 129 were in 
operation at the commencement of the year 1860, the balance — 
601 — having been established since the beginning of that year. 
This shows a remarkable growth of the manufacturing industries 
of the city. Again, of those 601 manufacturing establishments 
started since 1860, but 48 were started during the first three 
years, 1860-1-2, while 183 have been established since the begin- 
ning of the year 1870, showing that the per cent, of increase in 
new manufactories is even greater now than at any other period 
of the city's existence. Nor is the increase alone in the number 
of manufactories. Those already running have largely increased 
their capital invested, the number of their employes, and the 
amount of their annual production. 

The facts emljodied in the foregoing pages cannot fail to im- 
press upon the mind of the reader, if he stops to think, the fact 
that the manufacturing interest of the city is now the most vital 
and important of any — that whatever else the city may do, it 
should do nothing to check or retard the growth of her manu- 
facturing industries. They produce the wealth, and increase the 
population. Already they give employment, direct and indirect, 
to over one half the laboring population of the city. Neither 
the city nor her public men should ever give countenance or sup- 



MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 199 

port to any unl^ind or discouraging legislation, either municipal, 
State or National. It is an interest to be fostered and encour- 
aged by all legitimate means, because it repays tenfold for all the 
encouragement it receives, in the wealth it creates and the growth 
in population it induces. 

The foregoing pages will be found also a complete history of 
manufactures in the city. They show the date of the establish- 
ment of each manufactory, how many were started in each year, 
how many were victims to the great conflagration, and when and 
where each victim resumed after the fire. Much has been said 
and written, and that deservedly, of the energy and enterprise of 
our merchants and dealers, in resuming business after the great 
calamity; but it will be seen that no class of citizens were more 
prompt or courageous in re-establishing themselves after the fire 
than the manufacturers. Many of them resumed under the most 
discouraging circumstances, it is true ; but in nearly every case 
the wheels of industry were set running at once, and the tens of 
thousands of laborers thrown out of employment were soon set 
at work again, earning the support for themselves and their 
families. 

The iron interest is the largest and most important among 
our manufacturing industries, and next to that come the manu- 
factures in wood — the planing mills, the sash, door and blind 
and the furniture manufactories. Next come the manufactures 
in iron and wood — the car and bridge works, the agricultural 
implement and the wagon and carriage manufactories. The 
leather, boot and shoe and clothing manufactures are growing 
rapidly, and fast assuming importance among the industrial 
interests of the city. Then there is a long line of miscellaneous 
manufactures, whose production, in the aggregate, amounts to a 
large sum, annually. This class is constantly growing in num- 
bers and importance. 

As a general thing the manufacturers of this city are not 
realizing inordinate profits upon their capital, skill and labor. 
Much has been said and written upon the "lords of the loom and 
the iron-mill," a phrase that is used in a figurative sense, and is 
calculated to represent all classes of manufacturers. A visit to 
the leading industrial establishments in such a city as Cliicago 
will dispel many cherished illusions that have been conjured up 



200 MANUFACTURES OF CHICAGO. 

by the use of extravagant terms in referring to manufacturers as 
a class of monopolists who are receiving extraordinary favors 
from the government in the form of protection. In a majority 
of cases we have found the proprietor among his workmen, sharing 
their labor. True, many of our manufacturing establishments 
have grown from small beginnings to immense hives of industry, 
giving employment to hundreds of men, but they have grown 
thus only by legitimate means ; by unremitting toil, enterprise, 
judiciously directed, and rigid economy. And there is thns fact 
about the manufacturer : his business cannot increase without a 
corresj)onding increase in the number of working men who are 
furnished employment. Thus, the growth of manufactures, un- 
like that of any other leading interest, implies a growth of popu- 
lation and a wider distribution of the wealth created. 

In conclusion, it may be said that perfection is not claimed 
for this little work. The classification may be defective, and 
mistakes may have been made in this respect; but it must be 
remembered that this is the first publication of the kind, and 
that, therefore, we had no guide to go by. As nearly as possible 
a natural classification has been adopted — for instance, manufac- 
tures in iron ; in wood ; in iron and wood combined ; in metals, 
other than iron; in leather; in stone, etc.; in chemical works: 
in brewing and distilling; and finally classing all tliat would 
come under neither of the foregoing heads as miscellaneous. 






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